Printer Sharing - Windows 7 to 10.6

I had this set up when I was running the Release Candidate of Windows 7 and I completely forgot how I set it up. When I reformatted and installed Windows 7 on my Windows XP partition on my desktop (I had Windows 7 and Windows XP installed on it but I only booted in Windows 7) I made sure to keep the same PC name and I have enabled Printer Sharing.
I went from what was basically Windows 7 Ultimate x64 to Windows 7 Pro x64 so some menu options may have changed. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.
EDIT: I forgot to mention, I am able to access files on my Windows 7 computer using the smb://computername. Actually I had an issue with this too - I didnt set up my account to have a password when I first set it up (Im really the only one who uses it and sometimes Windows Update will restart my computer which I use as an alarm thus making me late to school...)
Anyway, Im trying to connect to the printer using the SMB protocol. Right now its supposed to find the printer using
smb://workgroup/computername-pc/printername and the password.
Message was edited by: Emp123

Update (I was just going to edit my previous post, but it wouldnt let me):
So heres how I setup my printer:
I went to printer sharing and clicked on the + and selected the Advanced icon. From there I chose Windows from the type pulldown pane, and in the url pane I used smb://computername/printername and selected my printer from the driver pull down pane.
I think this is how I installed my printer the last time, but now when I go to print I, the print queue shows a message that states session setup failed ntstatus_logonfailure
How do I fix this?

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