How to get google drive access to invites sent to a linked email account

I do this by signing into http://support.google.com/accounts/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=1721977 at once (if I am understanding your situation correctly). Is that an option for your setup?

Thanks - it's not an option, because if I try to create a separate account with the work address, I'm told that it's already registered (because it's linked to the personal account). It's possible that would work if I unlinked them, but I'd prefer not to do that. (Though I can as last resort)

I don't think that will work either. I have both a personal Google Apps for Domain account as well as a plain gmail.com account. I am signed into both of them but I recently got a doc invite to my plain gmail account and it wouldn't work while I was logged in with both account. I solved the problem with opening the other account in a different browser but that is sub-optimal at best.

The problem is that I don't have two accounts --- I only have one. I can log in with either address, but it's a single account with [email protected] as the primary. It acts like one account (the password is the same for both accounts - resetting it resets for both addresses). So I can't be signed in differently, and regardless of which one I sign in with, google doc invites to the work address don't work.

I think the confusion of some of the above posters is that the person does not have two GMAIL addresses, but rather 1 gmail and 1 address at another domain that he can use to sign into the gmail account. That said - I have run into this same problem and have never been able to solve it, unfortunately. Definitely obnoxious.

Yep, rainbowbrite, that's the problem.

In general, if you want access to a google doc from an email account that does not have access, you can send the document creator a request for permission. So, you could try sending a request from the work email address asking for permission to have access to the document. I do not know that this will work, but it's worth a try.

Is this work email listed in your Google Account as an alternate email address? Or is just that your gmail is setup to check mail for this work mailbox? If I invite one of my email aliases (which IS listed in my Google Account as an alternate address) to share a Google Doc, and then I copy/paste the link that arrives in my invite email into an Incognito window (to eliminate the chance of some cookie telling google that I am me), i am prompted to log into my Google account, and then I can access the shared document. Maybe this is not an accurate test since I am myself, but if your work email is not an alternate email address in your Google Account, try adding it?