OSX can't find shared windows printer

Hi,
I use a shared printer on my windows 7 PC to print from my Macbook. But this stopped working when I upgraded to Mavericks.
To fix this, I removed the printer from my preferences, but now I can't even add the printer anymore. OSX finds the windows computer, but doesn't list the shared printer. I double checked all sharing settings on the PC, all is fine. OSX simply doesn't find the printer...
Is there any explanation (and solution) for this?
Thanks

Hi, thanks. It never asked me for a password until now.
Another issues came up though; the windows 7 PC is a passwordless login.
When I try to set up the printer on my mac though, it doesnt let me log in with the password line empty.
I keep getting the message that the windows computer refused the request.
I double checked though, the user account on the windows PC does not have a password...
Do I need to set up a password for that account to make this work?
Thanks

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