Help printing to a a printer connected to a pc

BACKGROUND: I am new to apple and just purchased a macbook. I have upgraded all of my software including printer drivers. I have an Epson R260 connected to a Gateway PC running Windows XP Service Pack 2. I have a second PC connected wirelessly through a linksys wrt54gs router (so I know the wireless network is working). The mac is networked fine (sees my home network and can connect to the internet).
PROBLEM: I am trying to set up the mac to wirelessly use the printer hooked up to the PC. I have added the printer using the "Windows" tab in the print setup window. In that menu, it sees my network, my pc and the printer (epsonsty). I select all that. Then choose the printer driver (epsonsp r260) from the available list of drivers. So all seems ok. When I print, the printer immediately goes to pause and the job is stopped. No error messages. I have tried the generic postscript driver, and the Gutinberg r260 drive. Same problem with each.
OTHER INFO: There is no address for the printer in the location space in the setup menu. Even though I have downloaded the latest epson r260 driver for the mac, it does not appear in the list of available drivers (only the generic on epsonspr260 series that came with the mac and the gutinberg drivers are options). If the printer is hooked up directly to the mac I can print just fine.
I have contacted Apple TS: "we only support printing 2 ways, directly or through airport, please contact Epson". I have contacted Epson TS (level 1): "please contact Linksys". I contacted Linksys TS: "system is working ok, can see network and internet". So I called Espon TS (level 2): "we don't support that kind of setup". So you are my last hope.
Can someone please help me out?
Thanks.

Problem solved. First of all I discovered that besides not being able to print, I could also not access shared files stored on the pc that was hooked to the printer. I could access shared files stored on a different pc on the same network. When I tried accessing the shared files on the printer pc from the other networked pc. I got an error message saying I could not access the files because I did not have permission. It also says there were not enough server resources (interesting...this is also what my printer error log was indicating!!) Could it all be connected somehow??? You bet it was. I had done everything I possibly could to make sure that all the permissions were set properly. I always had a feeling it was an access problem (on the pc side) because of the way the print jobs instantly were stopped. So after doing a search on the file opening error "not enough server storage is available to process this command", I found this remedy at www.pcdoctor-guide.com:
When when you try to access shares on a machine from a client you might receive "Not enough server storage is available to process this command." error. You may also come across this message and Event ID: 2011 in Event Viewer after you install Norton Antivirus for Windows (which seems to be the commonest reason why people see this message).
Solving this problem requires a Registry edit:
Click Start, and then click Run.
Type regedit, and then click OK.
Navigate to the following registry key:
HKEYLOCALMACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services
\LanmanServer\Parameters
In the right pane, double-click the IRPStackSize value.
Important: If the IRPStackSize value does not already exist, you will need to create it:
- In the Parameters folder of the registry, right-click the right pane.
- Point to New, and then click DWord Value.
- Type IRPStackSize.
Important: Type "IRPStackSize" exactly as it is displayed because the value name is case-sensitive.
Change the Base to decimal.
In the Value Data box, type a value that is larger than the value that is listed.
If you created the IRPStackSize value using the procedure described in step 4, the default value is 15. It is recommended that you increase the value by 3. Therefore, if the previous value was 11, type 14, and then click OK.
Close the Registry Editor.
Restart the computer.
If the problem persists after you complete the preceding procedure, try to increase the value of IRPStackSize even more up to a maximum value for Windows 2000/XP of 50 (0x32 hex).
I had to create the IRPStackSize value and then I set it to 50. BAM!!! Everything now works, I can print to my printer through the pc and access all the files on the printer pc from either the other networked pc or the MB. Microsoft also had this remedy on there website.
Hope this might help someone.

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