Sharing XP printer with Vista computer

Hi, I recently ran into this problem at home, and I thought I'd share it here so hopefully it might help someone in the future.
I recently bought a T61, and was setting it up to work in my home network. All was well untill I tried to connect to my printer. My printer is connected to another computer, running Windows XP Pro. Everytime I tried connecting, it would tell me my computer was low on memory, please close some programs and try again. Well I have 3GB of memory, so that isn't an issue. It turns out, that since the printer is connected to an XP computer, it will try installing the xp driver on my computer, and my computer will reject it (I run Vista Ultimate). These are the steps to fix this problem.
1. Download/Install the latest Vista drivers for your printer
2. go to add new printer
3. Select Local Printer (not network printer)
4. Select create new port
5. For the name of the port, put the path of the printer (eg. \\DELLHOME\LEXMARK X215)
6. When it asks to look for the drivers, choose have disks, then point to the location where you installed the drivers
7. Voila! you are now set up to print over your network.
T61 15.4" T9300 (2.5GHz 6MB L2) Windows 7 Professional x64 4GB Memory, NVidia Quadro NVS 140M

I had the same problem, installed Bonjour on the windows computer and was able to print right away... no reboot required using the generic driver for a canon mp470 printer on the mac pro.
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