Winbox on Linux?

Polly_31 · Fri Apr 04, 2008 12:23 pm

Hi all,

Does anybody know if Winbox runs on Linux? I could download it from the router on the Desktop, but when dbl clicking it, it asks me with what to open?!?

Can Anybody help me with that? System is Fedora 7

Thanks,
Chris

Fri Apr 04, 2008 12:37 pm

Winbox runs on Linux, when you have Wine installed on your Linux.

GuJack20 · Fri Apr 04, 2008 11:57 pm

i spent 3 minutes to setup wine and then run winbox in Kubuntu 7.10...it was really easy

jcremin · Mon Apr 07, 2008 7:46 am

So when you're running winbox on linux, do you call it LinBox?

Mon Apr 07, 2008 10:58 am

So when you're running winbox on linux, do you call it LinBox?

no, you call it winbox in disguise

Vadim · Mon Apr 07, 2008 2:53 pm

So when you're running winbox on linux, do you call it LinBox?
no, you call it winbox in disguise

But if you wish, you can call it linbox

echo "alias linbox='/usr/bin/wine ~/winbox.exe'" >> ~/.bashrc

erudite · Fri Apr 18, 2008 5:22 pm

I have the same problem too. i want to install winbox on linux too. so How do i install the wine on my ubuntu linux ?
new beginner.

Vadim · Fri Apr 18, 2008 5:40 pm

You need to install wine package to your system.You can find the appropriate package and instalation manual here: http://www.winehq.org/ . Install it, then download winbox.exe from any of your router and save it in your home directory (or somewhere else if you wish, for example in /usr/local/bin/ ). After that, just type in console wine /path/to/saved/winbox.exe and enjoy the result

. Alternatively, you can create a launcher on desktop with the same command. For me it works fine under Fedora Core 6.

iam8up · Fri Apr 18, 2008 11:29 pm

Install Fedora 8 with GDE
yum -y install wine
Double click wine.exe

Done.

Vadim · Sat Apr 19, 2008 2:06 am

Double click wine.exe

winbox.exe

mushmx · Tue Apr 22, 2008 5:38 am

If you use Debian install with:

# apt-get install wine

In my case I copied the windows fonts to get a nice interfaces.

rado3105 · Thu May 22, 2008 12:14 am

It could be great to make linbox for linux{without no emulation of win32}, some people dont install wine and the same stuff, because it take more resources when windows enviroment has to be emulated. It could be great to make it runable direct under linux.

lastguru · Thu May 22, 2008 5:45 am

Remember, Wine Is Not an Emulator

As for performance, it's very good (except for initialization when it loads libraries in the RAM)

alternativi_boy · Fri May 23, 2008 3:28 pm

you will install wine, and you will open winbox, but immidiatly it will freeze, but if you enter in youre router with macc address it works fine..

Reguards

rado3105 · Tue May 27, 2008 11:39 pm

But there are people that dont use wine, Is hard to make it for linux?

Wed May 28, 2008 10:32 am

But there are people that dont use wine, Is hard to make it for linux?

yes it is very hard to make it for linux.
there are people who don't use your favourite flavor of linux.

iam8up · Fri Sep 05, 2008 10:25 pm

Wine and winbox seems to be perfect. No use fixing what isn't broken.

sevenlok · Sat Nov 08, 2008 3:00 am

I am using wine 0.9.17 it work. I run It in Ubuntu hardy / Intrepid. I re-builder It. I hope help somebody.
Get It here http://icmp.com.br/wine_0.9.17-winbox-s ... 86.deb.deb

Cha0s · Thu Nov 27, 2008 11:09 am

I am using wine 0.9.17 it work. I run It in Ubuntu hardy / Intrepid. I re-builder It. I hope help somebody.
Get It here http://icmp.com.br/wine_0.9.17-winbox-s ... 86.deb.deb

Thank you man!

The key to this thing is wine version? 0.9.17?

Or you have patched something in your deb package?

janisk · Thu Nov 27, 2008 3:36 pm

i have always used default wine supplied with ubuntu and debian, and had no problems ever. I think i started with ubuntu when it was edgy or breezy.

Cha0s · Thu Nov 27, 2008 4:21 pm

i have always used default wine supplied with ubuntu and debian, and had no problems ever. I think i started with ubuntu when it was edgy or breezy.

Older versions of MikroTik does not work with wine+winbox.
New versions of Mikrotik work just fine with any version of wine.
I suppose you started with an old version (latest at that time) of mikrotik / ubuntu / debian / wine and as the time passed you upgraded each one so it works till today for you because you have the latest version of mikrotik.

Wine 0.9.17 (or at least the package above) works perfect with any version of mikrotik!
Just tested and saved me from installing a virtual windows machine just to use winbox!

northman · Tue Dec 23, 2008 6:12 pm

But there are people that dont use wine, Is hard to make it for linux?
yes it is very hard to make it for linux.
there are people who don't use your favourite flavor of linux.

It's not necessary to have it for each flavor of Linux. It's possible to have one binary for all Linux.
..But, as soon as it works with wine well it should be now enough

Wesley · Fri Jan 23, 2009 12:07 pm

When I use the terminal in winbox(I am running Fedora 9) the letters overlap,and it doesn't show all the letters aswell,but the commands work,I just can't see everything that I'm typing...anyone a clue how to fix this?

Fri Jan 23, 2009 12:18 pm

why don't you just use your linux command line, and SSH to get CLI?

mrz · Fri Jan 23, 2009 12:56 pm

When I use the terminal in winbox(I am running Fedora 9) the letters overlap,and it doesn't show all the letters aswell,but the commands work,I just can't see everything that I'm typing...anyone a clue how to fix this?

you need msttcorefonts installed on your system.

haakon · Sat Oct 02, 2010 1:42 pm

If you need to connect to a RouterOS device with the mac address of a microtik from linux without using wine and terminal.exe, you could try a tool I just created:
http://github.com/haakonnessjoen/MAC-Telnet

Even though it's in alpha stage right now, it do work.

gzohop · Sun Oct 03, 2010 12:08 am

But there are people that dont use wine, Is hard to make it for linux?
yes it is very hard to make it for linux.
there are people who don't use your favourite flavor of linux.

Have you thought of creating mac-telnet linux version?
It would be very useful tool, winbox works under wine but like other apps it does not works perfect

under linux you have ssh acces so the only thing missing from winbox is mac level access from linux box

maybe you can just release a binary lib required to gain mac -level access?

maximan · Mon Oct 04, 2010 6:07 pm

If you need to connect to a RouterOS device with the mac address of a microtik from linux without using wine and terminal.exe, you could try a tool I just created:
http://github.com/haakonnessjoen/MAC-Telnet

That look great!. Good Work
M.

radioresearch · Fri Oct 22, 2010 6:02 pm

OK, this might be a dumb question, Mikrotik, but why not post the source code, then anyone who wants it for Linux can compile it for their individual Linux package?

If you are already giving it away, why not let us compile it for ourselves?

Thanks!

reverged · Fri Oct 22, 2010 6:32 pm

OK, this might be a dumb question, Mikrotik, but why not post the source code, then anyone who wants it for Linux can compile it for their individual Linux package?

If you are already giving it away, why not let us compile it for ourselves?

Thanks!

"He spoke the unspeakable!"

I second this motion. API is great, but why is Winbox "secure" and API not?

Why not release the "Winbox API"?

usmany · Mon Oct 25, 2010 11:05 am

Hi guys,

I installed wine 1.1.42 to my ubuntu 10.04 LTS version, when i double-click to run winbox, its gives me some kind of message that the file is not executable (.exe) that has permission to run. See attached file for the error message if there is something you can do to help me fix the problem.

Thank you

Mon Oct 25, 2010 11:16 am

run wine first

usmany · Mon Oct 25, 2010 2:36 pm

run wine first

How can i run the wine? its worked well when i was using ubuntu 9.10 but when i upgraded to 10.04 LTS it started showing that message.

Mon Oct 25, 2010 2:36 pm

welcome to the wonderful world of linux

sorry, but I'm no expert in Wine, maybe somebody else can help.

usmany · Mon Oct 25, 2010 7:16 pm

welcome to the wonderful world of linux sorry, but I'm no expert in Wine, maybe somebody else can help.

No problem man!

stuh84 · Tue Oct 26, 2010 1:12 am

Open a terminal, and navigate to where the exe file is, then do "sudo chmod 755 winbox.exe", try it after that.

dssmiktik · Tue Oct 26, 2010 6:19 am

I've had this issue before, but it was on Ubuntu 7.04 I think. I forget where it was, but I think it's a file association. Try open with... and set to open with wine. It was a long time ago, so this may not be relevant for you.

stuh84 · Tue Oct 26, 2010 4:16 pm

I've had this issue before, but it was on Ubuntu 7.04 I think. I forget where it was, but I think it's a file association. Try open with... and set to open with wine. It was a long time ago, so this may not be relevant for you.

Based upon the error shown, it isn't that which is the problem, its that the executable permissions are missing, so the file needs "chmod"ing to fix it. A chmod +x would fix it, but a chmod 755 will set it so the admin can Read Write and Execute, a normal user can Read and Execute, as can a guest.

usmany · Tue Oct 26, 2010 6:01 pm

Guys,

I am able to make the wine work on my ubuntu 10.0.4 LTS... I login with a root username and tried to run the winbox, then it work.

Thanks for all your help.

If any want to use the winbox on his/her ubuntu system, just download the latest wine 1.2 or later and run it under root user. it works great like you are on window system.

gzohop · Thu Nov 04, 2010 10:39 am

Hi

Does anyone know how to make the discovery button work under wine?
Because it works for me on one machine and does not on another and I cannot find out why.
Does it work for you?

ojsa · Fri Dec 17, 2010 1:20 pm

Disable firewall worked for me.

And now it discover.

mbembi · Thu Jan 23, 2014 10:11 pm

This is portable winebox with winbox v2.2.18 included WINE portable of course.

just moved to url:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B1_Vua ... FNoVEhfbk0

Just extracted and run in folder winebox:
#. /winebox

latter if you like, you can upgrade with newer version.

alexap · Sun Jan 10, 2016 5:41 pm

should have at least winbox for ubuntu.
or for xfce desktops, gnome, kde.
I do not think that much work.
with wine takes forever to open winbox.
I can not drag the packages to update.
I have to open by web to upload packages.

Tue Dec 20, 2016 11:16 am

with wine takes forever to open winbox.
I can not drag the packages to update.
I have to open by web to upload packages.

Could be a problem in your linux.

Wine works actually faster than on Windows, at least here in our office.
Drag and drop also works fine.

ErfanDL · Tue Dec 20, 2016 12:46 pm

with wine takes forever to open winbox.
I can not drag the packages to update.
I have to open by web to upload packages.
Could be a problem in your linux.

Wine works actually faster than on Windows, at least here in our office.
Drag and drop also works fine.

I need winbox on raspberrypi

Yohanoc · Wed Jan 04, 2017 6:39 am

Hi all,

Does anybody know if Winbox runs on Linux? I could download it from the router on the Desktop, but when dbl clicking it, it asks me with what to open?!?

Can Anybody help me with that? System is Fedora 7

Thanks,
Chris

Hi Cris,

You can try as following intruction.

download the app from below link
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BwYWpI ... 0tOWc/view

then install the application as instalation comment, eg
sudo dpkg -i winbox4lin.deb
sudo apt-get install -f
this is capture after installation finish.

lin winbox.JPG

Warmest Regards,

Yohanoc(newbie)

pukkita · Wed Jan 04, 2017 12:02 pm

Should be opened with wine. Install it if it isn't installed, this link may be of help: http://tecadmin.net/steps-install-wine- ... a-systems/

Joseph · Sat Mar 03, 2018 11:26 pm

This is my first post on the forum, so I'd like to say Hello for everyone

I use WinBox on Linux (Debian) via 'wine' and I have two questions:
1. Why I can't see every routers in "Neighbors"? Sometimes one or two, sometimes nothing... I have three routers on my network. (On Windows works fine).
2. Can I enlarge fonts in WinBox or this is a wine issue?