Article 118332 of comp.os.vms:
In article <5e9qnb$jnu@tom.unix.amherst.edu>, jwmanly@unix.amherst.edu (John W. Manly) writes:
>: > Hi everybody, i have the following (simple if you are a wizard) problem:
>: > some time ago i dowloaded the porting of Samba over VMS...
>
>Woah.  I didn't know there was a port of SAMBA to VMS!  Where might one
>find this elusive beast?

Start with
	http://samba.canberra.edu.au/pub/samba/samba-vms.html 

>: Well PathWorks is just as free as Samba once you've bought the VMS licence.
>
>Could you explain this statement, please?  Even if the Pathworks server
>is free in that the license to run it comes with VMS, my impression was
>that one still needed to license the CLIENTs (the individual PCs) to 
>connect to it, either by count ("This server may accecpt connections from
>this many clients) or by seat ("This client may connect to any Pathworks
>server").  But didn't think that Pathworks allowed "free" connections from
>unlimited numbers of PC clients.
>
>Is my understanding of this incorrect?

AFAIK, no. It is correct.
Except that PATHWORKS didn't check for licenses with WFW (and W95?) ;-)

just my 0.02
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