Winbox on OS X 10.11 El Capitan - it's a way to fix it the easy way

RouterOS General
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Installed your file.
Worked once.
Now after quitting, doesnt open anymore.

Microtik should release Winbox for Mac officially man!

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Hi !

I actually downloaded you package of Winbox, I launched it and clicked on ‘connect’ but then I got a message saying that the application cannot connect … I gotta say I feel kinda dumb right now and don’t know what to do …

Thanks,
Valad.

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It works, but it doesnt remember the windows or settings, etc.

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I totally agree !
I can’t figure it out why they do not release winbox for mac officially !

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@normis

Can I ask you to please update the link to V3.0 so we can get on to routers with 6.33? If you had a formal version on the download page it would probably get downloaded quite a bit.

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Just click “Update” and it will do it. There is no need to make a new Winebottler package every time.

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That was embarrassing, but thank you all good here now!!

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@normis: It’s not about display profile - using http://justgetflux.com with new Winbox causes that :frowning:

@soamz, @SaeedYa: Actually they’re doing smartest thing ever. Maintaining three applications (Windows, OS X, Linux) require people knowing these three operating systems. Additionally even if app is built around the same codebase more bugs will be present.
What MikroTik did is just built app which is Wine-complaint (which really means application conforming to standards without ugly hacks). Forms and windows used inside Winbox are custom anyway.

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Thanks. Its working.

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sorry winbox for mac not avaiable!!!

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This guy Joshaven has made windbox for os x and it’s pretty stabile and good, i been using 3.0 for a while and am downloading now 3.4 if anyone needs this is his blog where you can find it and download it http://joshaven.com/resources/tools/winbox-for-mac/

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Link doesn’t work; has it been moved somewhere else?

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You can make your own http://wiki.mikrotik.com/wiki/Manual:Winbox#MacOS or download it http://www.mikrotik.com/download/share/WinBox_elcapitan.zip|binary

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This file is flagged by ClamXav as containing Win.Trojan.Agent-1429193. It may be a false positive.

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a virus scanner for macOS ?! but why ?
of course it’s false. but you can roll your own if you want, just download the Wine Bottler tool

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So we don’t pass on Windows malware, of course. I’ve never seen it diagnose anything except Windows malware I’ve received in email… until this.

The infected file is indicated as WinBox.app/Contents/Resources/drive_c/windows/mono/mono-2.0/bin/MonoPosixHelper-x86_64.dll . From the name, that sounds like it may be part of the Wine Bottler tool itself, so I’m not sure how productive that would be.

Regardless, I would hope that MikroTik wouldn’t want to continue to offer an infected file in their download area.

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It’s NOT an infected file - it’s a obvious false-positive of ClamAV heuristic engine: https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/84570f01d17100cf89b1435deb6bbe307246b8ad97134bc853d6e1a8dc3135b6/analysis/
Detailed report gives a clue about this situation:

Possibly Unwanted Application. While not necessarily malicious, the scanned file presents certain characteristics which depending on the user policies and environment may or may not represent a threat. For full details see: http://www.clamav.net/doc/pua.html .

Giving purpose of this file in mono I can only guess why it was marked as suspicious. It contains POSIX compatibility layer and some clever asm - it looks suspicious, for sure, but this file itself is harmless.

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Sorry link(s) does not work

Where can i get binary for mac ?
Thanks

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See this post And generate your own Winbox… (step by step instructions)

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Winbox manual always will contain link to macOS version.
This one is from the manual: http://mikrotikdownload.s3.amazonaws.com/WinBox-macOS.zip