Share a printer from my mac to Windows 7

I am using an HP Deskjet F735 printer that is connected to mac OSX 10.6 Snow Leopard, and I would like my Windows 7 machine to be able to print from it.
I have set up all the necessary stuff: turning printer-sharing option on and all, but it seems that my Windows cannot connect to it.
How do I make it work?
I also tried to sync my workgroup name to be the exact same name to my windows machine, it detects it, and it asks for a password (when I "add a printer" on my Windows), but I don't know what kind of password that is. Can someone help me?
A step-by-step guide would be very helpful, thanks so much.

PAHU
I finally got my new MBP (OS10.6) to print to my vista PC running Vista home edition. I need to credit Tom Nelson (about.com) for the below insight.
Once I did what he shows below I was able to add the MP250 Canon printer using the driver that was on the Mac. it did take a few minutes to search for printers then I had to use the advanced icon and add a windows printer using the smb syntax smb://pcname/printername.
Don
In the Registry window, expand the following:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
SYSTEM
CurrentControlSet
Control
Lsa
In the ‘Value’ pane of the Registry Editor, check to see if the following DWORD exists:lmcompatibilitylevel. If it does, perform the following:
Right-click lmcompatibilitylevel and select ‘Modify’ from the pop-up menu.
Enter a Value data of 1.
Click the ‘OK’ button.
If the lmcompatibilitylevel DWORD does not exist, create a new DWORD.
From the Registry Editor menu, select Edit, New, DWORD (32-bit) Value.
A new DWORD called ‘New Value #1’ will be created.
Rename the new DWORD to lmcompatibilitylevel.
Right-click lmcompatibilitylevel and select ‘Modify’ from the pop-up menu.
Enter a Value data of 1.
Click the ‘OK’ button.
Restart your Windows Vista computer.

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