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can i put a printer on orbi guest network
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Is there a way to put a printer on the orbi guest network so that I can give my guests a way to print something quickly and easily? Right now guests cannot see or ping or print to other devices on the guest network. How could I have one printer just for guests?
thanks,
Vern
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Just more info that may help others. I tried putting a wireless printer on the guest network in hopes that the guests would be able to print to it. It was a no-go, the printer installation software was unable to find the printer so there was no way to install the software driver for the printer. I did successfully put the printer on the private wireless network (a Brother HL-750CDW) and users on the private network can print to it just fine. I was also successful in sharing this printer via Google cloud print service. This way, I can share the link that allows anyone with a google account to access the printer. I just made it a publically accessible printer. I don't think policing the usage will be a problem.
Hope this is helpful and I also hope that at sometime in the future Netgear will make the usb port on the orbi routers functional as that would be an ideal or nearly ideal place to hang a printer.
Vern
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Re: can i put a printer on orbi guest network
I'm sure you could, so long as you're allowing devices on the guest network to communicate with each other.
Rodney
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Re: can i put a printer on orbi guest network
Well, sure, but allowing guest to access my files is something that I do not want to do. That kind of defeats the whole purpose of a guest network. The option on the guest network is to "Allow guest to see each other and access my local network" Full access is not desirable, but a guest printer would be nice.
thanks for trying to help.
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Just more info that may help others. I tried putting a wireless printer on the guest network in hopes that the guests would be able to print to it. It was a no-go, the printer installation software was unable to find the printer so there was no way to install the software driver for the printer. I did successfully put the printer on the private wireless network (a Brother HL-750CDW) and users on the private network can print to it just fine. I was also successful in sharing this printer via Google cloud print service. This way, I can share the link that allows anyone with a google account to access the printer. I just made it a publically accessible printer. I don't think policing the usage will be a problem.
Hope this is helpful and I also hope that at sometime in the future Netgear will make the usb port on the orbi routers functional as that would be an ideal or nearly ideal place to hang a printer.
Vern
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