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trying to share folder with guest, but access denied.
Pieter Veenstra thanks for the reply!
You are right. I was thinking that to at first, but I've been testing with creating the link in Chrome, and then opening IE InPrivate Browser to navigate to the link (not logged in). And vice versa.
I have also created guest links on folders in the same format in our test tennant and it works with no problems.
Microsoft
Thanks for confirming. That's definitely odd. If you're clicking on an anonymous link, you shouldn't actually be prompted to sign-in at all so that shouldn't be the issue.
Can you contact me at srice@microsoft.com and we can debug further? Thanks!
Stephen Rice
OneDrive Program Manager II
I manage a parent site, with multiple subsites. All subsites that had external links were no longer working today for our outside partners. Stumbled upon this thread and it saved us!!! What I don't get is how this "limited-access user lockdown mode" was enabled/activated in the first place! Thank you for posting!!!
I just run into this today. The solution is exactly as Joshua Henderson described with the help of Pieter Veenstra
What's very extrange is that in my case was with a new site collection with external and anonymous access. It's not documented anywhere.
Great, follow through. Changing the Limited-access user permission lockdown mode setting worked for me. Thanks!StephenRice / Pieter Veenstra,
Stephen suggested checking “Limited-access user permission lockdown mode” enabled? It’s configured in Site settings->Site Collection Features. Because this does not allow folder sharing.
This was in fact the issue and I'm good to go.
Thank you all for the assistance!
StephenRice Per your last comment I am actually not even being asked to login. It just immediately gives me that access denied message. This is from another browser, not logged in to any account.
