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Good morning all. I am trying to install Microsoft Office 2010 on my brand new Mac Pro, despite seeing it is not yet on your Supported Software list. Not very far into the installation process, after the activation code has been entered, the installer encounters an unnamed error and tells me it must terminate.

Hi,

Indeed it is possible, but you need to have winbind installed.

Winbind is a package included in samba, which has been removed for Mac OS 10.7. That is why Office 2k10 is perfactly supported on Linux, but not yet on OSX.

I might try to integrate winbind to PoM when I come back home though

Hm. Thank you for that information. Do you know if it is possible to install winbind separately for Mac OS 10.7? I will check around and see what I can find too.

I am very new to Mac machines, but I see the OS is a variant of Unix. I am familiar at a basic level with both Unix and Linux, many flavours.

I look forward to seeing in PoM will become integrated with winbind when you return home.
Regards,
Russell Collier

It appears I can indeed re-install the missing winbind, so long as I install the missing Samba that was removed from MacOS10.7. I found a place to get it at:

http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/41541/smbup

If I have successes, I will let you know here.

Okay, negative success. Installing winbind via Samba did not solve the problem. Any other ideas?

Type get:801 in PlayOnMac search bar

Umm, where do I find that search bar, s'il vous plait? Is it the one underneath the Help menu at top of my screen?

Install window

Good morning. Has there been any new development on this one yet? Just checking in with you.

I'm not at home at the moment :) I will try when I come back

Hello? Any progress? Success right now would be incredibly timely for me. :)

Do you have port installed?

Good evening. I assume by "port", you mean "macport"?

Not yet. It depends upon having XCode installed, which is some huge big download. I have dropped connection multiple times trying to get that XCode downloaded & installed, so I can install Macport next. I have to get to a much faster connection, maybe in town, before I can install those fatties.

I want Macport, just have not had the time to go into town to do the massive download & installation required.

Found a couple other possible routes - Wineskin and Winebottler, which seem to be cousins to PlayonMac. I will give them both a try a bit later and tell you how it goes.

Hm. Just discovered Crossover too.

Yeah I mean Macport

You'll have the same problems with all wine software. We really need samba to install Office 2k10.

Do you have access to a 10.6 computer?

Hm. Same problems, hey? Just tried Wineskin, and it is not intuitive, so I gave up after a while and uninstalled it.

No, I do not have access to a 10.6 Mac. I have a 10.8 Mac with Samba installed however. Does that make any difference?

Nope, It should work with samba installed :) Just open PlayOnMac -> Install

Then, type get:801 in the search bar

hm. Okay, here goes.

Well, it seems to have crashed at the same place as before. Partway through installation, and after entering the Product Key.