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I have a google account. Someone sent a link to access a google doc to my email me@somedomain.com. I added me@somedomain.com as an alternate in my google account. It still does not allow me to access the google doc. It says my google email doesn't have permission.
Isn't there a way to add a non google email to your google account and allow the non google email to access google docs? After all, the google doc was sent to me@somedomain.com and not the gmail email.
You can actually set view/edit permissions to any e-mail address by clicking the Share-button in the upper right but the persons who gets the permissions needs a Google account to use the document.
Your Google Apps admin has not allowed users to receive documents from outside your domain.
One of the sharing options you can set for Docs & Drive within a Google Apps account is weither or not users can share documents to people outside the organisation. One sub-option of this is that they can separately allow or deny users from receiving outside documents
As the administrator, you determine whether users can share their Google Docs (documents, presentations, spreadsheets, and drawings) outside your organization, whether they can access docs created outside your organization, and the default visibility level for new docs.
If you are the administrator of the domain you can change the settings via:
I'm not sure if this is on or off by default but just ask your admin if they can allow outside sharing. Worst case is they will say no because of X.
Best Answer
It is not about your account, account holder of the file who has sent you should provide the permission to other. And there are different types of permission in Google Doc.
So, you should ask the sender to allow/provide the access to your email or make it public.