I found a simple and effective way to run Winbox on linux, here are the instructions https://snapcraft.io/winbox I tried it on ubuntu 18.04 LTS and it works great!
Simply is WinBox under “wine”.
The autor use logo and name of real winbox, and probably steal username password and IP…
waiting for a version of winbox compiled for linux…
works more than well I would say!
It’s already winbox unde “wine” (linux)
but you do not know if the author steal all your data.
but, I have checked for a while with wireshark it seems clean does not connect to strange ip
@ rextended
I found a version of winbox compiled for mac, so sources should be available (the developer does not answer me), do you know where to find them?
boh… non lo so, ma se ce l’avevo… :))
however here https://github.com/panaceya/winbox there is the snap of winbox and I have not seen anything critical in terms of security if you notice something wrong write it in the post, basically download the latest version of winbox from the site mikrotik and makes the connections for snapcraft
I guess what @rextended wanted to say is: how hard is it to install wine from your favourite source (e.g. linux distro repositories) and then download winbox directly from mikrotik and simply run it? winbox is pretty simple application, doesn’t need any installation procedure, simply execute “wine winbox.exe” from where downloaded file resides and you’re in the game. Next time you donload newer version of winbox, you don’t have to download/install different version of wine, the one already installed will quite likely do just fine.
No need for some super-duper “clever” package which does the two steps in one step. Or perhaps there is, but in that case such user might better go and get router intended for dummies, ROS-driven gadget might be just too advanced for them.
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I understand, is like saying but go take up knitting! ,you’re a poor incompetent, but I would like to understand what is so scary according to you in running snapcraft that is an application (a sandbox) built by the same developers of ubuntu, which installs wine in a reduced and minimal form, and runs the commands of a small script to launch winbox.exe original
And if you don’t like using wine, you can install a virtual machine with Windows on VirtualBox. Using the virtual adapter as bridge can solves the problem.
This is applicable for Linux and Mac users.
Regards.
of course, you can use a virtualbox, but what I wanted to discuss is essentially this, since by now the linux distributions have already pre-installed I don’t understand the distrust of a completely open and parsable script that installs original programs in a sandbox. the problem of wine that ‘pollutes’ the linux environment is completely contained.
You’re free to run whatever you want on your boxes and if you find running winbox inside snap environment a simple and effective way, then great for you. Personally I try to avoid installing some 3rd party wrapper environment if running same stuff without that environment provides same (or even better) result. In addition I don’t have to even think about whether I trust some 3rd party …
Looking at the repo its just running winbox.exe in wine anyways - just seems another step in the process (or you might find it easier for you).
Winbox runs pretty much perfect in WINE - there’s little to no reason to port it to a cross-compatible library for *nix.
There’s also WebFig if you struggle with WINE (but I personally hate webfig)
That mac version was popular though. But, I replaced the exe inside with the 64bit version winbox exe mac. For mac crossover can also be used, I have few games in a single bottle. Also, unofficial winewrapper (only mac) developer is also a great guy, still directly troubleshoot issues via discord,
On my Linux system I was required to add the following firewall configuration in order to get winbox working:
rules to allow L2 neighbourhood discovery
sudo ufw allow from 0.0.0.0 to 255.255.255.255
sudo ufw allow 5678/udp
That doesn’t look reasonable to me to just run WinBox:
0 upgraded, 12 newly installed, 0 to remove and 3 not upgraded.
Need to get 88,3 MB of archives.
After this operation, 574 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] n
Abort.
Netinstall (CLI Linux) exist why WinBox cannot?
now you can use the LINUX VERSION FROM SNAP :
sudo snap install winbox
I run Winbox using wine and it works great. I just find it kind of ironic that ROS is built on Linux but MT does not have a native Linux version of their management tool available…
Perhaps it’s the name that is the issue and they would want to rename the tool before releasing for Linux?