Connecting Snow Leopard to Printer shared on XP Pro

I am attempting to connect my Snow Leopard machine to my printer that is shared on my XP Pro machine. Here are the steps I have taken.
1. Printer shared on XP with printer name that is 12 characters or less
2. Verified the XP Firewall is set to allow file and print sharing
3. Verified shared printing works from another machine (I can print from a Vista machine to this printer)
4. Both XP and Snow Leopard have the same Workgroup name
5. Both XP and Snow Leopard are on the same subnet
6. On Snow Leopard I have gone to Printers and chosen Windows. In the screen where I would expect to see my workgroup I see nothing, no workgroup, computers or shared printers.
7. On Snow Leopard I have added the Advanced button to the Printers window and chosen Windows from there.
8. For the SMB:// address I have tried the following (all with generic PostScript driver):
smb://user:password@workgroup/server/sharename
smb://user:password@server/sharename
smb://workgroup/server/sharename
smb://server/sharename
When I try to print (with any of the above SMB addresses) the print job gets stuck in the queue and says "waiting for authentication". When I resume the print job I am prompted for a username and password. I enter the username and password for an administrator account on the XP machine and the job still says "waiting for authentication"
9. I can connect to an SMB file share on the same XP machine from the Snow Leopard machine (I just can't connect to the shared printer)
Any ideas on what else I can do to get Snow Leopard to connect to the shared printer on my XP Pro machine?

I finally succeeded in printing to my Win7 shared Brother DCP printer from my MacBook Pro with Snow 10.6.1 doing this:
- in the "Advanced Sharing Setting" of the Win7 machine (in the Network and Sharing Center) I selected "Enable File Sharing for Devices that use 40 or 56 bit encryption" instead of the 128 bit set by default.
- in my MacBook I accessed the Win7 machine using the finder and the string smb://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:139 (not the machine name...wins and workgroup are buggy).
- Added the printer as usual with the string smb://user:[email protected]/printer
Connecting this way I can easily browse the PCs, sync my documents with Super Flexible Synchronizer (the Mac version of Goodsync for Win), use the Win shared printers.
I also experienced that if I turn on my other Mac Machine (OSx86 with Leo 10.5.8) on the LAN, on the finder sidebar of my Snow 10.6.1 one, the workgroup machines populates the list with their "wins" names.
If the 10.5.8 is turned off there's no way to connect the win machines but manually (Finder/Go/Connect to Server).
I thought it might be a "Little Snitch" (firewall for Mac) issue, but I turned it off and it's the same.
It must surely be a close ports related issue (between the two macs, they exchange LAN info through different ports/ways, maybe....)
Hope it may help, even if the 128 encryption mode doesn't affect XP machines (Only Vista and Win7)....
Stefania

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