I have quite a complicated setup, perhaps. And a lot of history on this issue, I'm hoping that I don't have to buy a new printer.

I've got a HP Wireless USB Print Server, which requires client software, I can't just use it as an IP Printer. The HP software is pretty poor on the mac and is no longer supported and often locks up the printer server and takes some considerable effort to actually print something. Let alone if a windows machine attaches to it first.

My printer is an Epson Stylus R285.

However, the windows client software is fine and we can print from windows 7 / XP without problem.

We have simple file sharing setup as this is the only way I could get windows XP to talk to windows 7.

However, I can't seem to get my mac mini to connect as anything other than a guest to my xp machine, to connect to the shared printer.

I'm not considering some kind of internet printing as this would seems the simplest solution. But I'm not sure what will work with my setup ?