Group email sharing of Google Drive file ???

TenOC wrote:

tatest wrote:

TenOC wrote:

tatest wrote:
There is something wrong with your approach. You should be able to access the cloud stored file from your mailing program, and let the mail program bring it back to your computer, send it to each addressee.

1. It is a large file. I can copy from the cloud and then email it out as an attachment to the group.

2. I wanted everyone to see the edit changes made by each person. That is why I wanted it stored in the cloud and not on my desktop.

3. I think MicroSoft OneDrive may be best for the editing since everyone can use Word to do the editing and not need to learn Google Doc to edit. I still have the problem with OneDrive in trying to create a Group of email address.

So you are not talking about email sharing at all, you are sharing on the cloud server. If a document is to be kept "private" on anyone's cloud server, each person to have access must be specifically identified. I don't know of any cloud server today with "group" identity as found on Unix/NFS and early Netware or Windows network services. They've pretty much moved on to using access control lists, with every user of a file specifically identified, and email is not an access method because identities are too easy to spoof in mail systems. A given cloud server might use an email address as a login ID (backed up by an encrypted password), but not email as a file access method.

Even where groups were defined on network servers, each user had to log in to the network with individual ID and password to become identified as a member of the group.

Excuse me since I am new to cloud storage. I only want to be able to send the invitation to edit or Cloud collaboration (?) on the content of the file without typing each persons (5 or 10)email address.

You do not need to send an "invitation".

All you need to do is COPY the URL file location link on Google drive and PASTE it into your Email.

Then all you do is choose your email "group" and send..

Each person that gets that link can simply access the document by pasting the link into their favorite browser..

It is the same principle you use to share any doc on Google drive.

I am sure there is some "advanced" method but to me that is the most straight forward way.