Printing to Window's Shared Printers from OSX (across workgoup or domain)

Took a while for me to get this process down, so hopefully the below saves you some time. 
 1 – Set up a printer in “Printer Setup Utility” … it probably wont work but do it anyway (there must be a printer set-up or CUPS won’t be switched on). 
 2 – In “directory access” (in utilities folder) configure SMB / CIFS to use your domain or workgroup. Also point it directly to your WINS server (by IP address) if at all possible. 
 3 – Open a web browser and navigate to CUPS admin interface: 
 http://localhost:631/printers 
 “Modify” the printer you just created. 
 Click through and leave everything as it is except the Device URI field – here enter address of printer in following format: 
 smb://username:password@domain_name/machine_name/shared_printer_name 
 [for this last step I reccomend setting up a very limited access account just for such cross platform printing purposes — on a workgroup or somewhere where username isn’t important just put in some dummy info (but put something in)]