Can Airport Guest network feature be enabled to give access to printers, Apple TV, music system ?

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Wizkid1968 Author

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Can Airport Guest network feature be enabled to give access to printers, Apple TV, music system ?

Hello Friends,

Apple documentation says the Guest network feature can be enabled to give access to guest users to use Internet and restricting them from using all network resources.

I am curious to know since Apple tags Guest Network traffic with a VLAN id something like 1003, can the Guest users be given access anyway to use printers, Apple TV and music system connected to the Airport Wireless main network through the Airport configuration utility ?

Thank you

Posted on Sep 20, 2016 7:11 PM

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Answer 1

Sep 21, 2016 1:02 AM in response to Wizkid1968

No, that is the whole meaning of the guest network.. no access to the local LAN.. otherwise you may as well just give them full access. Once they can access the printer and music system they can access everything.

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Wizkid1968 Author

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Sep 21, 2016 1:03 AM in response to LaPastenague

LaPastenague,

Thank you so much once again for clearing my doubts.

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Sep 21, 2016 3:00 AM in response to Wizkid1968

I should clarify a couple of things.

If you wanted to print for instance from the guest network, then the wireless printer could be added to the guest wireless.. so it is possible to print .. just not to the same printer as the main network.

Guest network does not work if the main Airport is not in router mode.. in bridge there is no guest network unless it is connected to another airport that is running in router mode. People do use smart switches to get around these limitations but for the average Joe this is too hard.

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Wizkid1968 Author

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Sep 21, 2016 2:40 AM in response to LaPastenague

LaPastenague,

Mate, do you mean to say technically Guest network users can have access to Guest Network resources ? If that is the case it would also be possible to add Apple TV and hence music systems also in the Guest Network ? Can you please elaborate the steps how a printer or a device is added in the Guest Network.

Thank you

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Wizkid1968 Author

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Sep 21, 2016 3:28 AM in response to Wizkid1968

Mate,

OK, I guess the wireless printer would show up 2 wireless network and allow the user to select either the Primary or the guest Network.

Thank you

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