Can't see printer on PC with airport extreme

I've been running an Airport Extreme for a couple of years and the printer and internet work great. Just added a PC running Vista, I have to connect to the internet on my iBook before I can connect on the PC. The PC does not see the wireless printer to add it. Have tried changing printer sharing, but that doesn't help.

Got lucky to phrase my question correctly once which lead me to iFelix posting on the proper sequencing of a TCP/IP port connection. Is that right? anyway, it worked perfectly. Thankyou iFelix!

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    Message was edited by: swbooth

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