Hello and welcome to the Mikrotik forum 
For all new users that uses RouterOS for the first time and have some questions regarding their config here is short tutorial on how to access RouterOS configuration using “WinBox” and how to export their configuration and posting it properly in their topic.
So after you unpack your new device and connect it to the power supply you need to connect it to the PC.
Be careful when connecting because to access your new router you need to use one of the LAN ports and not the WAN port as default network can only be accessed on ports that are LAN members.
WAN port is used to provide internet access to our device and doesn’t have any DHCP server and also firewall rules prevents us to access the router. By default DHCP client is running on the Internet port .
Usually WAN port is labelled as “Internet” on your device and it’s in most if not in all cases Port 1 (ether1).
After you successfully connected your device and PC you should get IP in 192.168.88.X range.
Now it’s time to open Winbox. When you open program you will be met with the screen show on the first image. To connect to your device you need to select it in winbox marked as “Step 1” on the picture. After that you need to input your credentials and that can be find on the sticker at the bottom of your device.
You input your credentials according to the step 2. After that you click connect.
If you entered your credentials right will be met with the following screen:
Now we need to export our configuration so it can be edited and posted on the forum. To do that first we need to open terminal by clicking on “New Terminal” tab on the left side of the Winbox as shown ih Step 3:
When we did that a new terminal window should open and then we input the following command:
export file=anynameyouwish
And here is how it should look like in terminal window (Step 4)
When that is done we need to export that newly created file to our desktop. To do that we need to open new window named “Files” as shown in Step 5:
After we done that a new window “Files” is open and here we select our newly created file as marked in step 6 and then we simply press “Copy” icon as indicated in step 7:
Then we right click on desktop or any folder where we want to save our configuration file and press paste (Or ctrl+V for windows users). Then we get our configuration file on our PC. Step 8 is to open our file with Notepad or Notepad++.
When file is opened we get our exported configuration and now it’s time to redact sensitive information like MAC addresses, serial numbers, software id’s, public IPs if we have one, public keys or any other information we found sensitive:
After we redacted our sensitive information it’s time to copy it to our post in forum. For that we will use “Code” function in fourm:
We select our configuration from our file, copy it and then click on “Code” function and paste it with ctrl+V or with mouse between brackets. We should get something like this:
After that when we are done with writing of our post we can check everything with “Preview” function to see if everything is good and then we post it.
If there is any information you need don’t hesitate to ask
