Connecting to a Printer attached to Airport Extreme in VMWare

I have an Epson Stylus Photo R280 connected to my Airport Extreme. Both my Macs and my wife's windows PC can print to this printer.
I installed VMWare Fusion on my iMac because I need to use Windows (XP Pro) to connect to the office systems. I am trying to configure this printer on Win XP (with VMWare Fusion as the host), so far with little luck. I have tried to install as a local printer, as a network printer and have tried to install the printer using Bonjour.
I have searched through the VMWare website and have found nothing. Can someone please point me to where I can find some documenation on this topic.
Thanks

So which of the 2 instructions to use?
My problem is similar. External on AEBS. My macs can see it fine, husband is sadly on a PC and he can't find anything. He searches for it via the screens shown in the first instructions. Nothing there.
Dumb question. Does he have to load Airport Utility on his PC to be able to see the disk?

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