Can't Enable File Sharing for Guest Users on Time Capsule

Hey all,
My roommate has a time capsule that is capable of using a guest network, which my other roommate and I use to connect to the Internet. I have a Mac Mini, Mac Pro, iPhone, iPad, all of which cannot currently communicate with each other due to being on the "guest network."
I have seen instructions for enabling the "allow guest users to communicate with each other" option, but have loaded the roommate's Airport Utility and it does not have that option. He's running OS X 10.7 and has Airport Utility 6.1. There are options to configure the guest network, but nothing about enabling sharing between computers on the guest network.
See:
http://news.goldenweb.it/article.php?l=en&id=27203&group_dir=comp&grouplist=comp .sys.mac&group=comp.sys.mac.comm
This article seems to suggest the option is not even available anymore, which seems very odd to me. Any ideas? Thank you for your help!

AirPort Utility 5.6 for Mac OS X Lion

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