Can't connect to windows xp via server name

I have a network via Airport Express: imac 10.6.8 and PC windows XP sp3
Suddenly, without any reason, I got this issue:
I can't see the PC in on left share bar of Finder windows.
The only way to see the PC is : go > connect to server" > server address = smb://ip address BUT doesn't work if I use the computer name instead of the ip address( i.e ".smb://ip-address" works fine BUT "smb://computer-name" doens't work : message "connection failed")
Sometimes , very rerely, the XP computer name appears on the share bar but again, if I try to connect I get "connection failed " message.
It seems that iMac is not able to translate the logical computer name with the ip address.
Due to this issue , I have a trouble to use the shared windows printer because I have to install (on the mac) the windows printer using the ip address of the PC but if the IP address changes (I use DHCP and sometimes I have other computers on the network so the IP addres may change) I have to install again the printer with the new IP address.
Can someone help me?
Many thanks
Giuseppe

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