samba - Nov 2004 - Problems trying to print to Windows printer via ssh and Samba

Hello,

I am trying to do a rather wild thing. I want to print from a Windows XP laptop
(over TCP/IP) to a Linux box (Fedora Core 2) which sends the print data through
ssh (puTTY) to a Windows 2000 Print server.
The problem in detail: The laptop is not a member of our domain, so it cannot
see the domain printers. I have a running Linux server which shall provide a
printer queue in the form of 123.456.789.012/printer (or an equivalent if you
have an idea how to do it). This printer should be sending its data through an
ssh connection (preferably puTTY) to a Windows Network printer. I have to do
this in such a complicated way because the Linux server is in a DMZ and is not
"seeing" the Windows Network printer, since they are -of course-
behind a firewall. I did manage to make the Linux box print via ssh once about 3
weeks ago, but I had to do my final exam in the meantime, so I forgot the
working settings. What would the correct path to my machine look like, e.g.
something like
smb://workgroup/localhost/share (localhost because of the tunneling)? This
doesn't work, I tried many different settings (e.g. with and without the
workgroup, w and w/o username and password etc.). BTW: I forwarded (through
puTTY) the following ports: 137, 138, 139 and 631 and get errors like this:
"Unable to connect to SAMBA host, will retry in 60 seconds...ERROR:
Connection failed with error NT_STATUS_LOGON_FAILURE". What I want to know
is, which username is required for connecting to the Windows print server? Up to
now I use an admin user and its respective password, but to no avail.

If anybody could give me some advice I will greatly appreciate it.

Of course, any other possibility is also very welcome.

Thanks in advance

Jan