Accessing Remotely

RouterOS Beginner Basics
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This is my current setup (it wont stay like this but for now)

Cable Modem > MikroTik RB750 > Linksys WRT54G > Me (Wireless Laptop)

I setup a hot spot yesterday and that seems to be working perfectly fine, it’s making me log in and everything.

Problem is I cant use Winbox or access the routers admin page, everytime I go to 192.168.88.1 it goes to the hot spot screen to log out.

So, this is kind of like a “remote access” Im trying to accomplish. How can I access WinBox? I need to get in there so I can config the hot spot HTML pages. And in the future Im sure I’ll need to get in there from one of our hot spots.



By the way, I can access everything fine when I plug directly into the router (750).

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Ok, so now I’ve installed User Manager but I cant access it because when I try to go to http://192.168.88.1/userman it says “404 Not Found”.

Now, when I disable the hot spot then it will work, but it’s pointless if the hot spot is disabled.

I have hot spot set on ether2-local-master, but even when I plug the computer into Ethernet slot 3 I still get the hot spot server.

So, I need help. I need hotspot running and the ability to access the router config/user manager at the same time, preferabily over wireless and/or directly connect as I am now.

Anyone?
Please.

3

Instead of using the internal IP address (192.168.88.1), use its external IP address to access User Manager. That’s a known bug.

4

Thanks for the reply, I’ve been trying to do this all day.

How do I find the external IP address?

5

Look at the IP adresses configured on the router. You want the one on your Internet facing interface

6

Ok, I found it by going to IP > Address List in Winbox. It is http://192.168.2.100/.

Quick question. Lets say I’m off of my local network, lets say I’m at work for example. Can I get in to maage the MikroTik server from there and what IP would I use? I ask because http://192.168.2.100/ looks like a local IP to me, even though it loaded the config page. If it’s not the right IP then can you tell me exactaly where in WinBox I can go to get the real public IP>

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Any help on this? Does no one here really not know how to setup and/or find the public IP?

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If you’re using hotspot, it uses port 80. To get to the main router page or usernam page, you have to change your www and www-ssl service ports. Since web-proxy uses 8080, a good choice is www=8000 and www-ssl=8443 :

/ip service set www address=0.0.0.0/0 disabled=no port=8000
/ip service set www-ssl address=0.0.0.0/0 disabled=no port=8443

EDIT:
To access main router page: http://192.168.88.1:8000
To access userman page: http://192.168.88.1:8000/userman

Try that out and see if it works for you.