How to Share Google Storage Buckets with Other Google Storage Users ?

Follow the steps to access an Google Storage bucket from your friend's account:

1. ^[optional] Start Bucket Explorer and Get connect with your Google Storage account.
2. Click on Tool menu.
3. Go to the Bucket Sharing >> Access Shared Bucket from a friend's account option.
4. It prompts you to enter the name of shared bucket.
5. provide the shared bucket name and click on OK button.
6. Now you can see the friend's bucket with shared bucket icon in bucket listing.
7. You have done. Enjoy the Bucket accessing.

Follow these steps to Remove Shared Bucket(s) from Config:

1. Run Bucket Explorer and connect with your Google Storage account account.
2. Click on Tool menu.
3. Go to the Bucket Sharing >> Removed Shared Bucket(s) from config option.
4. A new panel will be opened which contains the list of all shared buckets.
5. Select a bucket name that you would like to remove.
6. Click Remove button at Edit Third Party Bucket panel.
7. It removes ‘Third Party bucket’ ^[2] or Shared Bucket name from your Bucket listing table.

1. ˆ Start Bucket Explorer and connect with your Google Storage account : This is optional ; If a bucket is shared with " All Users ", in that case anybody can access that bucket whether she is registered or not with Google Storage. Hence this step is optional, you may or may not connect to your Google Storage account.
2. ˆ Third Party bucket : A bucket which we are accessing from other's account, in Bucket Explorer, we call it a Friend's Bucket or a Third Party Bucket. Read/Write operations over such a bucket depend on the permissions which can only be set by the bucket owner.