pcAnywhere for Mac? Connect to PC

Hello Joe,

pcAnywhere 12.0 supports OS X. You can purchase pcAnywhere 12.0 and have the ability to connect to a Windows machine with the same software.

http://www.symantec.com/homehomeoffice/products/remote_pcfax/pca12/index.html

You are very welcome. Take care.

Well I just received my copy of Pcanywhere 12.0. I tried to unstall it on my imac G5, I unfortunately received this error:


Could not create directory /usr/local/lib

I cannot find any support for this type of error. I looked to see if everything was updated according to recommendations. However I cannot proceede past this. The only option is to exit.

Any help is greatly appreciated..

Well I just received my copy of Pcanywhere 12.0. I
tried to unstall it on my imac G5, I unfortunately
received this error:


Could not create directory /usr/local/lib

I cannot find any support for this type of error. I
looked to see if everything was updated according to
recommendations. However I cannot proceede past
this. The only option is to exit.

Any help is greatly appreciated..

I was knocking my head on this one for a while.

I solved it by creating the directory in terminal with this command:
sudo mkdir /usr/local/lib/pcAnywhere

I then changed the permissions on that directory from system (read only) to my "user name" (read/write) and it installed fine then. I left it read/write after installation as 'thin host' needs it that way to store config files.

(There was also one other directory /usr/bin that I had to change to read/write because the install needed to write a temp file there. I changed that back after the install completed without errors)

It's a shame that the geniuses at Symantec have no clue that this is the problem and that there's NOTHING posted in their support about this issue.

Hope this helps someone.

Rich


PowerBook G4 1.67, MacMini 1.58 Mac OS X (10.4.1)

Rich - good write up on this, works as written, I am sure more will need to refer to it. Thank you!

Well I just received my copy of Pcanywhere 12.0.

I
tried to unstall it on my imac G5, I unfortunately
received this error:


Could not create directory /usr/local/lib

I cannot find any support for this type of error.
I
looked to see if everything was updated according to

recommendations. However I cannot proceede past
this. The only option is to exit.

Any help is greatly appreciated..

I was knocking my head on this one for a while.

I solved it by creating the directory in terminal
with this command:
sudo mkdir /usr/local/lib/pcAnywhere

I then changed the permissions on that directory from
system (read only) to my "user name" (read/write) and
it installed fine then. I left it read/write after
installation as 'thin host' needs it that way to
store config files.

(There was also one other directory /usr/bin that I
had to change to read/write because the install
needed to write a temp file there. I changed that
back after the install completed without errors)

It's a shame that the geniuses at Symantec have no
clue that this is the problem and that there's
NOTHING posted in their support about this issue.

Hope this helps someone.

Rich


PowerBook G4 1.67,
MacMini 1.58 Mac OS X (10.4.1)

I had the same problem...
Another way to solve the problem is to set up a "Root" level account and then log in to that account as the admistrator.. once you have a Root level account set up you will find a new log on when you start up computer.. log into the Root account using "root" as the user name and whatever the password you set when you created the root level account... once logged into the root account PC Anywhere will install... then log back into your user account and your program will work... I actually installed PC Anywhere again through the user account after I got it installed from the root level - but I am not sure if I would have needed to do that or not... but anyway all works fine now..
Hope this helps someone...