Adding Windows Printer Tab in Snow Leopard

Hello,
I have a HP Deskjet F2280 connected Via USB into my Windows XP PC. I have been using this PC as a print server and have had no problems connecting to it through my macbook running leopard through SAMBA.
Now after my upgrade to SL i am unable to connect to the printer. I have tried deleting the printer under the printer system preferences, but i am now unable to add the printer again - I installed the printer in leopard 10.5 previously through the windows tab under add printer in printer preferences.
Now in SL the Windows tab is greyed out. I have doubled checked that my mac is part of my workgroup in the WINS tab in network preferences, and i have checked if file (SMB) and printer sharing are turned on. My firewall is also off. For some reason i cant work out why i cant add a windows printer. Does SL require a new way to register workgroups?
Any help would be appreciated.
P.S: I know HP drivers arent really supported in SL, but usually i could use the generic postscript driver, and this usually works under 10.5

I don't believe you need to do anything different in SL to connect to a Windows shared printer.
On my SL Mac, the Add Printer > Windows icon is still available and that is with both File and Printer sharing disabled on SL. I also don't a Workgroup name entered in WINS, although if you did I don't see this stopping the add Windows printer function.
If you open Finder, do you see the Windows box in the Shared view?
You may be able to work around the Add Printer issue by adding the Advanced menu to the Add Printer toolbar (control-click on the toolbar, select customize and drag the Advanced icon to the toolbar). If you then change the Type to Windows, you can enter the path to the printer in the URL section (smb://Windowsname/printer_sharename) and select the Generic PS in print using menu. Hopefully the Windows menu is available for you in this view...
Pahu

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