Printing from MacBook to shared printer attached to a Win XP host

I was able to set this up successfully and print from my Mac to it. But I keep getting prompted for a user every time. I can select Guest and it works. But I would like to have it just use Guest every time and no longer prompt me. Any tips?

Cleophas,
Could you explain how you set this up? I'm trying to help a friend who has everything in the house set-up wirelessly via a Verizon Fios WiFi Router. There is an XP (home edition service pack 3) windows desktop with printer connected to USB. There is a laptop running windows xp (business edition service pack 2), and the macbook running snow leopard. After setting up the windows xp desktop to share the printer, and successfully printing to it from the laptop, I tried to add the printer via the sys prefs control panel. First I chose the "Windows" option under type of printer. Up popped the mshome workgroup and the two pcs. When I try connecting to the desktop, I don't get any printers in the list (using Guest or User login). When I try connecting to the laptop, I see two generic "Printer" and "Printer2" labels (connecting via Guest), but connecting to either of them and setting up the drivers for the printer doesn't work. Any thoughts?
Sorry this doesn't answer your question about avoiding the login/guest option every time...
warm regards-
dave

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1. I shortened the share printer name in my Windows (following the instructions I mentioned above, before I posted my message), there are no special characters or spaces.
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