Re Share a Shared Windows Printer as a different name

Using CUPS you should be able to directly use the servers printers, you just need to tell the cups client to use a specific server instead of the local spooler. You can do that by modifying /etc/cups/client.conf and adding or modifying the line containing ServerName to

ServerName cups.example.com[:port]

You should be able to see and use all printers on the CUPS server. If you have local printers connected to some Macs, you cannot use this, but you should still be able to add printers using lpadmin in a script for each printer:

lpadmin -p printer -E -v ipp://server/printers/printer

Another advantage of sharing the printer(s) on the print server is printer discovery. If you publish the printer in AD it makes it fairly easy for a user to discover and add the printer.

Also, this is my opinion but it's based on my experience in larger corporate environments: I think you'll find that sharing printers from a print server (or print servers) is the standard way of making them available to users. I've never seen a corporate environment (with more then a few users) that had users connecting directly to the printer. I would think that would make printer management, control and troubleshooting more cumbersome. A big part of managing any IT infrastructure is efficiency and having users connecting directly to the printers isn't very efficient from a manageability perspective.

SOHO environments, where there's no AD or servers of any kind are more likely to have users conected directly to the printer(s).