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title: Identify Access by external user to any Google Drive file on our domain
description: "GAT+ offers full comprehensive Google Drive auditing for Google Workspace domains. An admin can **search and view** Drive shares for the entire domain. ## Find external users on your Google Drive files Navigate to**GAT+ > Drive > External users** Apply…"
url: "https://gatlabs.com/knowledge/tech-tips/access-by-external-user-to-any-file-on-our-domain/"
updated: "2026-09-18"
category: "Drive Audit & Management"
tags:
  - GAT+
---

# Identify Access by external user to any Google Drive file on our domain

GAT+ offers full comprehensive Google Drive auditing for Google Workspace domains.

An admin can **search and view** Drive shares for the entire domain.

## Find external users on your Google Drive files

Navigate to**GAT+ > Drive > External users**

Apply filter to search for the external users - when the result is displayed, you can see the user and what access they have to what files of your domain.

![](https://gatlabs.com/knowledge/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/2022-06-13-14_29_19-Window.png)

The External users will show a table of each individual external user who has access to any file of your domain.

- Owns (not ours) - Where 'owner' matches the user's email
- Can edit (any doc) - Where contributors contain the user's email
- Can edit (our docs only) - Where contributors contain the user email AND owner matches our domain(s).
- Can view (any doc) - Where viewers contain the user's email
- Can view (our docs only) - Where viewers contain the user email AND owner matches our domain(s).

**Note:** Shared drive contents are not counted in '*can edit (our docs only)*' and '*can view (our docs only)*'

Hovering over the "?" in the table will show what each heading means.

### Search by owner or users

Admin can **apply a filter and search** for **how many** files the **user owns.**Maybe by **users** - where the **user has any access to any file/folder** of your domain and so on.

- **Owner**equal '**user's email address**'
- OR
- **Users matches** (partial string or reg. ex) or **list element equal to**gmail.com

![](https://gatlabs.com/knowledge/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/2022-06-13-14_50_42-GAT.png)

### Find externally accessed Google Drive files on the domain level

Navigate to **GAT+ > Drive > External domains**

Admins can apply filters and search

- **Owner domain** - enter the external domain needed
- **Shared with** - enter the external domain a file is 'shared with'

![](https://gatlabs.com/knowledge/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/2022-06-13-18_20_48-Window.png)

### Result

The result of the above will show.

External users on an (**individual level - external users )**and **external domains** - all the files **Shared In** and **From external users **

- **Grey** background -**local user**
- **Orange** background - **external user**

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## Related Articles

- [Google Drive Management Tech Tips](https://gatlabs.com/knowledge/google-drive-management/)