I haved been using this parameter (rw) since I began using linux.
I forget why I use it.
This link is the lprng howto.
http://www.lprng.com/LPRng-HOWTO/LPRng-HOWTO.html#AEN3105
If you seach for rw (don't use the quotes in your search string) you will
see this is used only for serial printers.
I don't know anything about BSD and you don't say which printing system you
use (cups, lprng, whatever), but:
Printing with samba is simple. Your client transfers the job to the print
server spool directory. Then, the print command on the sever is invoked to
print that file. Then, the file is
A couple of days ago I set up my printer on my FreeBSD server and set it
up so I could print from my FreeBSD client. This all works very well,
printing from botht the server and the FBSD client. However, I also have
samba set up for file serving with an XP box. I have been trying for
quite some
