Print from a mac to a printer attached to windows

After installing Leopard I lost the ability to print to a printer attached (wired) to a PC in my home office. My MacPro is wireless and has no trouble finding the network I have set up to enable printer sharing. When I was running Tiger there was no problem getting this to work. I remember going into Printer Browser and selecting the workgroup MSHOME or something else. Everything seems fine in System Preferences. Under Printer & Faxes my Epson printer is showing and I have downloaded the latest Epson Drivers. All printing goes into the queue and never hits the actual printer. Please help.

I found a series of articles under Apple Mac OS X: Cannot locate a shared Windows printer. The first article said a remote printer must have 12 or less characters. That opened the door to the solution. The rest of the material was also useful. I can now print remotely.
Who would have thought that Apple would have been limited to 12 characters for a printer. Thta's the stuff you expect form Microsoft.

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Looks like it's a network issue. I reach the step, "Adding a printer using the wizard":
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