WindowsXP printing on a Mac shared printer

Hi. I've seen a lot of posts on a Mac printing to a Windows printer, but not the other way around.
My wife has brought home a windows laptop and she wants to print on our Mac network. I have an iMac set up as a printer/music server with a laser printer connected to it. the iMac is running 10.3.9.
The driver for the printer is built in to XP, but when I try to add the printer, the XP machine doesn't see the shared printer.
On my iMac print server, I have printer sharing on, and Windows file sharing is on too. My Macs have no trouble seeing the printer. It is on an ethernet network, and I've tried entering the IP address of the print server with no luck.
Any ideas?
Thanks,
Mark

The driver for the printer is built in to XP, but
when I try to add the printer, the XP machine doesn't
see the shared printer.
You can't use the XP driver.
Printing to a printer on a Mac from a PC running Windows XP
http://www.ifelix.co.uk/tech/3000.html
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http://www.ifelix.co.uk/tech/3014.html
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