prevent guest accounts from viewing with whom else a file has been shared

Question

I have a sharepoint online site which is open to external sharing, and i want to share some files and folders with external users >> but i do not want the guest accounts to view the file permissions >> so they do not know with whom else the file has been shared? is this possible? or since a guest account can view the file content, then the guest account can also view its permission (with whom the file is been shared with)?

Thanks

Answer 1

You can share using anonymous links I suppose? But yeah, Guests can see this info and I'm not aware of any way to hide it.

Answer 2

Hi @john john ,

When users share a folder with multiple guests, the guests will be able to see each other's names in the Manage Access panel for the folder (and any items within it).

I don't think we could change the default behavior for guest users.

Reference:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/external-sharing-overview#how-the-external-sharing-settings-work

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