Printing from a PC over a wireless network to printer plugged into a iMac

Hi,
I'm new to Mac and the discussion board. I've been looking at some of the posts and I couldn't see anything in the pages I checked so here's my problem. If I go to network places on the PC and look under workgroup and I see the Macintosh folder and under it shows a printer. If I double click on the printer I get "access denied can not connect".
I did turn on printer and file sharing in preferences on the Mac. By the way, I do not see any of the files or folders for the Mac.
I called tech support and all they could support is instructions for turning on file and printer sharing on the Mac. Very, very, very disappointing.
Any thoughts?

Hi,
When you share out printer from mac, you probably select a specific account to be used to access the printer. Then from PC side you need to be authenticated as such user in order to gain access to the printer. One way of doing that is try to access home folder for the user that is used to share out the printer, e.g. \\192.168.0.5\adyler, then windows will prompt for credentials, after that you should have full access to your printer.
There's probably a way to share printer out to a guest account if such is enabled on your mac system, in that case anyone on the network should be able to print.
Hope this helps.

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