Conference noted::pwv50ift

4141.0. "clients without license allow access, how come??" by KERNEL::SIMEONC () Mon Feb 03 1997 11:02

    Pathworks VMS V5.XX 
    Windows for Workgroup v3.11 client
    
    This is a licensing issue. The question is does the Pathworks server
    allow connection to shares from non licensed WFWG v3.11 clients for a
    predetermined number of clients and period?
    
    I have a customer who has 4 WFWG clients without any client licenses
    and no  server based licenses and yet they can connect to the shares on the
    Pathworks V5 server. We used the Admin/Anal utility to view event log
    entries and saw following message:
    
    	.....
       Event:		client without Pathworks V5.0 license allowed access
       Event source:    LAN Manager Server
       Event Class:	Warning
    
    The customer problem is that uptil recently all the 4 WFWG clients
    could connect ok but recently only 3 of them can still connect at the
    same time. 
    
    Customer appreciates that he does need pathworks license for clients
    and does have the PAKs, but he would like to understand how the above
    is possible.
    
    Thanks in advance for any feedbacks.
    
    Cass Simeon,
    UK PCI Support.

re: .0

It has been standard, though not widely documented, policy to allow clients with
a pre-V5.0 license to access V5.0 servers for limited access.  The "limit" does
not apply to numbers of clients or length of time, but simply to the features
that they can use.  These clients are *not* allowed to use any of the features
of a LAN Manager server that were not present in our V4.0 MS-Net servers.

So, for example, a client with a pre-V5.0 license could not Browse.

"But",  you say, "pre-V5.0 clients didn't use PAKs!  How does the server know if
the client accessing the server is client with a valid pre-V5.0 client or one
without a license at all?"  The answer is, we don't.  (Except that we *don't*
assume a Windows NT client has migrated from a PATHWORKS V4.x client, so Windows
NT clients all must have a license.)

Please note that this ambiguous grey area will be eliminated with the release of
the V6.0 server.  Unlicensed client access will not be permitted and only the
V6.0 client access license will be valid.

John

    John, thanks for that.
    
    Cass.