Winbox running on Windows Vista

keithb1978 · May 11, 2007, 7:35pm

Hi there all.

Was wondering if someone has found a solution to get the history and the save sites facility in Winbox to store those addresses in Vista. everytime I open winbox it has cleared all the addresses. I also cannot do a MAC scan in vista always comes up blank.

Have tried to run the app as a administrator and set it to run in compatiblilty mode but have had no joy

Thanks

Keith

csickles · May 11, 2007, 7:43pm

I dont know about the history…
But vista has an inbound and outbound firewall.. well um ahh I , um…

You will probably need to open a rule for winbox and / or it’s ports..

Craig

keithb1978 · May 11, 2007, 7:58pm

I have opened the ports for winbox - I can connect to sites but having 28 RB high sites it was usefull to save the IP address and login details in winbox.

Could I be missing some ports for the MAC search?

mrz · May 11, 2007, 8:00pm

Disable that crappy windows firewall.
Turn off UAC
Disable defender ( this crap isn’t doing anything anyway ).

normis · May 14, 2007, 5:59am

I’m using Vista and I don’t have this problem. Either try to do what mrz said, or you might have some other problem

Binayak · May 17, 2007, 8:56pm

i too am using vista … and dont have any such problem.

Ghassan · May 17, 2007, 10:48pm

me too i have tried using winbox on windows vista but Windows vista has a great firewall locally and over the network .

stealthwave · May 18, 2007, 5:05am

I am running crappy Vista and do not have any problems with winbox.

I think its just Keithb has a direct short on his key board. LOL
I guess you got your new laptops.

MikroManagement · June 20, 2007, 5:01pm

My defender and firewall disabled - still the same issue.

Will try UAC just now, but the “Run as Administrator” feature didn’t work either

MikroManagement · June 20, 2007, 5:26pm

nope… still not functioning. Not UAC, defender or firewall. must be something else

It worked on my old notebook, also running Vista Ultimate.

Any other ideas?

mrz · June 20, 2007, 5:45pm

Then check if you have plugged in ethernet cable )

dsovereen · June 21, 2007, 1:07pm

My Winbox just lost all of its saved sites. When I re-import from a saved list, everything is there. But when I close Winbox and re-open, everything is blank again.

Also, Winbox has to download all plugins every time.

Mikrotik: where does Winbox look to find its saved config?

There is a folder at c:\Users\dsovereen.CONTROLLER\AppData\Roaming\Mikrotik\Winbox that has as config file of all the saved systems and all of the downloaded plugins, but Winbox doesn’t seem to see it anymore.

Dave

MikroManagement · June 21, 2007, 4:13pm

I’m on wireless… No ethernet cables required

And yes, my Winbox also downloads several files

Still no solution this side.

MikroManagement · June 21, 2007, 4:19pm

it actually worked on a previous version of vista

Pretty sure that it has something to do with the %APPDATA% variable.

I’ve deleted my MikroTik folder, and it doesn’t recreate it - either not used anymore or no access

mrz · June 21, 2007, 4:40pm

probably you have changed something in system variables.
Winbox config is located here by default:
C:\Users<username>\AppData\Roaming\Mikrotik\Winbox

dsovereen · June 21, 2007, 4:50pm

That’s exactly where my Mikrotik stuff is:

C:\Users<username>\AppData\Roaming\Mikrotik\Winbox

C:\Users\dsovereen.CONTROLLER\AppData\Roaming\Mikrotik\Winbox

But Winbox doesn’t use the files there anymore. They are there. Winbox just doesn’t seem to see them.

I wish Mikrotik would diagnose this so that I could either correct Vista or they could adjust Winbox so it worked.

Dave

mrz · June 21, 2007, 5:02pm

open registry editor:

Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Shell Folder
and make sure that AppData is set to “C:\Users<user>\AppData\Roaming”

Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\User Shell Folder
AppData should be “%USERPROFILE%\AppData\Roaming”

Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Volatile Environment
AppData ishould be “C:\Users<user>\AppData\Roaming”

dsovereen · June 21, 2007, 5:31pm

My first one was C:\Documents and Settings\ReleaseEngineer.MACROVISION\Application Data and several others were C:\Documents and Settings\ReleaseEngineer.MACROVISION… Went to Macrovision’s web site. They deal in digital rights management… I think it was software I had to download in order to buy some MP3s. Walmart is the only MP-3 download store I’ve used on this computer. I uninstalled the software but it didn’t change the registry entries back.

I deleted all of the entries that had C:\Documents and Settings\ReleaseEngineer.MACROVISION in them (looks like they default correctly when automatically re-added) and Winbox is good again.

THANK YOU!

Dave

MikroManagement · June 21, 2007, 8:46pm

Perfect!! Thank you, I’m back online as well

nikhil · November 20, 2007, 9:10pm

Same problem with mine, registry changed to Macrovision . Changing that solved the problem. Hope this thread helps other Vista users .