Sharing Windows printer on PC with multiple users

I am sharing a printer attached to a Windows PC over a wireless home network. I added the printer to my mac (OS X) by using my windows uers id and password. However, the pc in question has another regular user. I want to configure the printer utility on the mac to recognise another Windows user and password in addition to the one already in the keychain. That way I can print from the mac whoever is logged onto Windows. I have tried to add it manually using the advanced options to add via SAMBA but that didn't work. Any sugggestions?

I worked this one out for myself. it doesn't matter which Windows user is logged on to the PC- the access to the printer still works. I was having problems because of the Norton firewall on the PC

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