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Share Folder to Anyone with The Link
When I try to share a folder with anyone with the link. Person who gets the link has to sign in... why is that? I need the folder to be seen by anyone with the link. How do I do this. I'm using my ...
Have them try in a private browser session. There should be no trouble using an "anonymous" folder link anymore.
Thanks,
What is using private browser trying to achieve/fix?
Or what do you think may cause a login request for an anonymous link?
If someone has a logged in Microsoft account that might have permission to the site / tenant somehow but not the document that was shared it can sometimes try to auth to show that you viewed the file etc. and throw a denied error. so going incognito basically prevents that cached account session.
It used to be way worse but it’s usually first troubleshooting step I use anytime anon links act up.
It used to be way worse but it’s usually first troubleshooting step I use anytime anon links act up.
- Also other issues I’ve seen is users taking an anyone link. Pasting in browser to test. Then they turn around and copy the URL from the browser which is now a direct link not an anyone link and send it to users to use. This causes no access. The incognito test will point this out if it doesn’t work. Check the actual URL being used and make sure it’s the actual sharing link and not changed.
Thanks Chris,
As the share is outside the organisation, I am using tiny URL due to the length of the URL try to avoid the copy and paste issue.
I assume this is not the issue, as I am seeing this appear with android user with no MS account.
