Using an old AEBS as a printer access point

I would like some help please on how to configure an old (2006 UFO) Airport Extreme Basestation as a wireless hub I can use to plug some printers into for printing over a wireless network (if it can be done). I'm using Airport utility 5.3.1.
I recently purchased a 500GB Time Capsule which acts as both a backup device and my ADSL wireless router. This made my old Airport extreme redundant, but I want to use it as a wireless printer server. But I'm a bit stuck on how to configure my Airport network and Apple support and a local reseller haven't a clue!
To start with I setup my Time Capsule device, connected it to my D-Link ethernet modem and everything is working fine. I then reset the old AEBS which creates a new wireless network called Apple Network a78a67. I then switched back to my Time Capsule network and did the following in Airport Utility to Time Capsule:
- Choose Manual Setup from the Base Station menu, or double-click the base station to open the configuration in a separate window. Enter the base station password if necessary.
- Click AirPort in the toolbar, and then click Wireless.
- Choose “Create a wireless network” from the Wireless Mode pop-up menu, and then select the “Allow this network to be extended” checkbox.
I applied the settings and restarted the device. Then I switched back to to the new Apple Network a78a67 created through reseting the AEBS. This is the bit that makes little sense to me...
- Next, select the base station that will extend this network, and choose Manual Setup from the Base Station menu, or double-click the base station to open its configuration in a separate window. Enter the base station password if necessary.
- Choose “Extend a wireless network” from the Wireless Mode pop-up menu, and then choose the network you want to extend from the Network Name pop-up menu.
- Enter the base station network and base station password is necessary.
- Click Update to update the base station with new network settings.
The problem being that I DO NOT have an option to choose “Extend a wireless network” from the Wireless Mode pop-up menu. The only two options I have are to "Create a Wireless Network" or "Participate in a WDS Network". Likewise there are no options to choose a network name from a pop-up menu. So although I can configure and switch between two wireless networks, it seems the two devices don't want to talk with one another, thus I have two wireless networks.
What I want to do is to have one single wireless network - with Time Capsule providing internet access and the AEBS providing wireless printer access.
I have tried configruing the AEBS using the "Participate in WDS Network", but on saving the settings an error message is displayed regarding a lack of WDS Nodes???
Can anyone advise please?

willonamac wrote:
Thanks for your help and advice. I got there eventually in a roundabout way! At one point I was given an error message stating that the configuration could not be retrieved from the Time Capsule. Then the internet connection via the modem was lost. But after a couple of intensive restarts, both units appeared under the same network and I can see my printer connected now.
I've seen this with AEBSs when changing their configurations, too. Glad you got round the problem in the end.
One more question through, I've connected a 4 port USB hub to the Airport Extreme Basestation but I can only get one printer to show up at a time under System preferences and Airport Utililty. Is this because the USB hub being used is not self powered or because this model of Airport Extreme only allows connectivity to a single printer at any one time?
I think it is because you can only use one printer at a time with this model. See this knowledge base article for details. You likely have firmware version > 5.5 but I'm guessing don't have the relevant AEBS model. Take a look, though.
- cfr
Many thanks!

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