Sharing USB Printer from Window XP Machine

I just bought a new iMac and a Canon Pixma MX310 from the Apple store. Loaded the drivers on the iMac and my wife's Dell running XP. When the printer is hooked directly to either computer it works fine. However, my wife wants it hooked up to her Dell. So I set up printer sharing and have found the printer and even gotten it to print blank pages. The problem I have is the drivers for the MX310 don't show up as an option on the Mac when it asks me which drivers to use for the printer. I have an Epson 740i hooked up the Dell also and have been able to share that without a problem, because the drivers show up in the window it prints without a problem.
So the question is, how do I get the drivers for the MX310 to show up in the drop down window with all the drivers that came pre-installed on the iMac?

Unfortunately the Canon Mac drivers won't work across a network in this way.
It should work the other way, with the printer connected to the iMac and shared to the Dell PC.
Printing to a printer on a Mac running 10.4.x from a Windows PC using Bonjour for Windows
http://tech.ifelix.net/3014.html

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[solved]printing from Windows 7 to ArchLinux server.

I have read https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/CU … er_sharing
but cannot recognizing my printer from Windows 7 machine. I have added the workgroup in smb.conf but i don't know if should i put the password and where, i can go from w7 to archLinuxhost:631 and send a test page to print, but i cannot add to w7 the printer.
Last edited by fpilee (2012-11-14 13:09:01)

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you have to add a address reservation in your router to the machine with the printer,
Last edited by fpilee (2012-11-14 13:11:17)

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