PC and Mac printer sharing - help!

[iAppleShane]

Hi guys,
Got my first iMac 21.5" yesterday. Been a PC user since I was born (16 years heh), saved up money from work and made one of the best purchases ever. Alongside my iPhone 4.

Anway. My iMac (Running 10.6.5) is connected via ethernet to my router.
My Vista PC is connected to the router, via ethernet.
The Kodak ESP 5 printer is connected to the Vista PC via USB.

I'm trying to get access to the printer from my iMac. The PC and printer are both on.
I've enabled LPD on Windows Vista.

On my iMac if I attempt to add a printer through 'Windows' in the first column there are two names 'home' and 'workgroup'. These appared after enabling LPD. Sadly, when clicked no printers appear.

Please help!

 

[Dalton63841]

This may help: http://social.answers.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/w7performance/thread/bd920e46-dbeb-4bb2-a38e-8791facd0608

Also, if your router has a usb port, you can connect the printer directly to the router for seemless sharing to both computers.

 

[iAppleShane]

Okay, I now manage to send it to the printer. However an error messages appears on the Vista screen and stops it from printing.

 

[Dalton63841]

Whats the error message? Screenshot maybe?

 

[mike31mets]

Here's an alternate solution (I realize you may not be able to move the printer):
Connect the printer to your Mac. I assume there are Mac drivers for that printer. Then share the printer out from the Mac.

On Vista, install Bonjour and then you will be able to connect to the printer.

You can download it here: http://support.apple.com/kb/DL999

 

[iAppleShane]

Bonjour downloaded, but what do I do with it?

I send to print and it just pauses now, doesn't even send to the printer, nothing appears on Vista's screen,

 

[iAppleShane]

I've now tried this through the IP option:

LPD://KODAK5

It now says "connecting to printer" when I send something to print, then says unable to connect.