How to use winbox tool on changed winbox tcp port

shahbazian · May 27, 2012, 6:28am

Some of RBs on my network do not use TCP 8291 for winbox.
e.g. use 8292 instead of 8291

How to use winbox tool in The Dude

perspetolis · May 27, 2012, 8:31am

hi
you can edit or view port number of winbox with follow this:
ip service print
Flags: X - disabled, I - invalid

NAME PORT ADDRESS CERTIFICATE

0 telnet 23 0.0.0.0/0
1 ftp 21 0.0.0.0/0
2 www 80 0.0.0.0/0
3 ssh 22 0.0.0.0/0
4 X www-ssl 443 0.0.0.0/0 none
5 winbox 8291 0.0.0.0/0

shahbazian · May 27, 2012, 8:44am

I know how I can change the winbox port!
I want to use it without change winbox port?

cbrown · May 27, 2012, 11:32am

Did you try something like 192.168.88.1:8292

shahbazian · May 27, 2012, 12:51pm

yeah
When I connect via winbox use 192.168.88.1:8292 but when add this router to dude as a device and assign password to the device, just can use tcp port 8291 for winbox tool.

karina · May 27, 2012, 6:18pm

shahbazian, I actually understand your question I too would like a answer to this one.

I use the DUDE to connect to devices with the built in winbox tool

For security I have changed the winbox port in my devices

How can I change the default winbox port in the DUDE?

shahbazian · May 28, 2012, 4:11am

yeah
I have exactly the same.
But I can not find any answer for it, and apparently there’s not any way unless the Winbox port back to default.

karina · May 28, 2012, 7:11am

Ok over to the feature request forum then

karina · May 28, 2012, 12:25pm

Looking deeper i think the answer lies here in the tools

Anybody out there know how to make this tool use a different port?

shahbazian · May 28, 2012, 1:34pm

By adding the following command to the dude tools list can be partly solved this obstacle.

"drive:\winbox_path\winbox.exe" [Device.FirstAddress]:port_number [Device.UserName] [Device.Password]

But there are still several challenges:
First, “drive:\winbox_path” is different in different computers.
Then, Dude can’t connect to the device and read more information from that.

I think if MikroTik add one option to determine winbox port in the dude will solve this problem.

geoffsmith31 · May 31, 2012, 8:41am

I have had similar issues with different drives being used on different PCs and have solved it for tools that are “stand-alone executables” like PuTTY by:

Creating a “tools” share on the Dude server and give everyone (at least all your Dude users anyway) read access
Specifying the tool as - \<Dude_Server>\tools<tool_executable> [Device.firstaddress]

I dont know if Winbox is standalone but if so then this should help you out.

Eliminator · September 12, 2012, 9:48am

Do the Following…

open dude and go to tools on the left hand menu

Click on the + to create new tool - call it something like winbox8292 or whatever you like that will be unique to what is there already

now create it with the following variable content

“C:\Documents and Settings\Admin\Desktop\winbox.exe” [Device.FirstAddress]:8292 [Device.UserName] [Device.Password]

where “C:\Documents and Settings\Admin\Desktop\winbox.exe” is your location of the winbox.exe file

Note the spaces - it tells the variable it is the next field

Save that

now if you go to the mikrotik device on your - right click and select the tool that you just created

Should connect on correct port