A few things...
>>use client drivers = yes
This will probably turn out to be part of it. Go all the way and set up the print$ share, upload the drivers, etc.. Having this set to yes was one of a few things which changed between consistantly getting "access denied" and finally getting success... so I'm not going back to see which of those few settings were not critical.
What Samba version are you on? Distro of Linux (or other OS) and version?
You might check out my presentation on a Samba 3 PDC to Win2K Client presentation. The printing section ties together various findings and suggested docs to read all into a bundle that should have you printing soon.
ftp://ftp.lueckdatasystems.com/pub/presentations/klugsamba3pdc-bookreview.pdf
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