using windows printer share

I have a canon MP950 connected to a windows computer that I want to use from my MBP. 10.5.2 doesn't have a MP950 driver so I downloaded the driver from Canon & installed it. Tried out connecting the MBP direct to the printer and it works fine.

However when I go to add a windows network printer I run into a problem. I can browse to the printer fine, but when I go to pick a driver for it the MP950 driver is not in the list of drivers. I tried browsing to the mp950.db file (which I assumed was the driver, I'm a Mac noob) and selecting it but apparently that is not the file it's looking for as the add button remained greyed.

How do I either make the system aware of the MP950 driver so it shows up in the list or how do I bypass the list and select the driver manually?

 

You might do better connecting the printer to a mac and sharing it with windows. My impression is that Mac can "play nice" with windows but windows does not "play nice" by sharing its printers with mac. Mac can see windows shares using SMB. Windows doesn't speak mac unless you find some third party software. I've resorted to network printers so there is never a "computer" between me and the printer I want to use. The Brother HL-2170 is a laser printer with built in wifi that is only $150. That's cheaper than some of those "win-printers" that require all the page rendering to be done on the pc and sent to the printer in some proprietary jibberish. The Brother understands "pcl" which is a standard language common on higher end HP laser printers and Windows, Linux and Mac OS can all print to it.