A Piece of the SAMBA Network Printing Puzzle

[Word Warrior]

I recently set up network printing to a Widows printer, and I encountered a problem I did not see mentioned in this forum. I was unable to print if my router was connected to the internet! Here are the commands I ran to diagnose the problem, and the results of the commands ( "..." means "repetative output omitted"):

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# smbclient -NL //IBM-1/OfficeJet
init_iconv: Conversion from UTF-16LE to CP850 not supported
init_iconv: Attempting to replace with conversion from UTF-16LE to ASCII
init_iconv: Conversion from UTF-8 to CP850 not supported
... 
timeout connecting to 204.194.233.140:445
timeout connecting to 204.194.233.140:139
Error connecting to 204.194.233.140 (Operation already in progress)
Connection to IBM-1 failed (Error NT_STATUS_ACCESS_DENIED)
# ping 204.194.233.140
PING 204.194.233.140 (204.194.233.140): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 204.194.233.140: seq=0 ttl=50 time=165.420 ms
64 bytes from 204.194.233.140: seq=1 ttl=50 time=104.827 ms
64 bytes from 204.194.233.140: seq=2 ttl=50 time=94.100 ms
...
--- 204.194.233.140 ping statistics ---
12 packets transmitted, 12 packets received, 0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max = 89.657/108.209/165.420 ms

I did a Linux-specific Google search for the IP address mentioned in the error, and found a solution and explanation here:
http://forums.dlink.com/index.php?topic=12389.0

I had to enter my server name in lower case letters to get my printing working. Putting the name in all capital letters as the shown in their example did not work for me.