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How do I give Guest users access to a printer?

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12 Oct 2016 10:20 #86987 by aitcheff2
If I follow the various guides on setting up a Guest wifi network I can isolate the guest users, but they then of course have no access to my printer. I would like to give them access. Bearing in mind that I am no networking expert, how do I do that?

I thought I could create a separate VLAN with only the port on which the printer is connected assigned to that VLAN, and then use inter-lan routing to allow the guest and internal VLANs to both access this third VLAN. However I then found that no-one could see the printer. The printer was unable to get a valid iIP address from the DHCP server, but even if I gave it a static IP address on this 3rd VLAN, no-one could access it.

Is this the right approach and I am just doing something wrong, or is there a better way to do this?

Harry

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12 Oct 2016 13:55 #86990 by admin
I'm guessing that this is a port-based VLAN.

Are they all within the same subnet? Then it should work.
i.e.
VLAN0 - your private devices
VLAN1 - guests

The printer is then in VLAN0 and VLAN1



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13 Oct 2016 14:13 #86997 by aitcheff2
You are correct! It is just me being stupid. I did have the VLANs on different subnets, but now I have them on the same subnet and it works as I want.

Thanks for your help.

Harry.

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13 Oct 2016 16:52 #86999 by admin
Great!



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06 Dec 2016 19:10 #87438 by pcripps
How can you share the printer if the guest and private networks are on different subnets?
I have 3 VLANS
LAN1 - 192.168.1.x - Private
LAN2 - 192.168.2.x - Guest
LAN3 - 192.168.3.x - Printer

I have set up the printer with a static IP address of 192.168.3.2

How can I get users on LAN1 or LAN 2 to see the printer on LAN3?

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07 Dec 2016 07:45 #87441 by admin
"See" as in find, you probably can't - you probably have to address the printer manually by IP address on the client PC and make sure the printer VLAN is common to the others.



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