Printer sharing via Windows XP is no longer supported by Mavericks

Just contacted with Apple Support, after a while of working around, the Apple guy told me that XP is not any more supported for sharing a printer to Mavericks... What a pity! Apple is helping Microsoft for forcing people to upgrade to newer Windows OS...

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5480881?tstart=0

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