Printing FROM a Mac TO a WinXP machine/printer

Hi,......my brother and I have run into a problem we can't get around. He just got an old G4, but his main computer is a WinXP machine. (I'm trying to convert him) He has an Epson R220 printer hooked up to the XP machine, and wanted to print from the Mac to the R220 via his wireless network. We have tried all the things they suggest and are still getting the NTSTATUS_ACCESSDENIED error message. I know it possibly has something to do with SAMBA, but we can't figure it out. There are tons of articles on the net about that error message, but none of the possible solutions we have tried, have worked. I was wondering if anyone has done this and got it to work.....and/or what is the best way to make it possible to do this.
I told him he could use Bonjour on Windows and hook the printer up to the Mac, but he has no room upstairs to put a printer on the Mac.
Any help or suggestions would be much appreciated!
Dual 1 GHz PowerPC G4   Mac OS X (10.4.9)  

Scott,
Xchaserr's link is a non-Samba (Windows Printing) method.
There are literally 1000's of responses regarding NT_STATUS here in the forum. Be sure to look in Keychain and delete any entries related to connecting to the PC. And yes, I do have this working. I don't have a firewall running on the PC (I figure the router's firewall is good enough). Back when WinXP SP2 was installed was the only time I got NT_STATUS errors.
Here's another resource:
http://www.ifelix.co.uk/tech/3015.html

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