Add Winbox to rdm

So far as I'm aware, Winbox is only natively supported for Windows. To run it on Unix system (Mac and Linux), you need to use Wine. So, that being known, it's unlikely we'll add support for the application.

Can you launch it with command line arguments?

Best regards,

Hello,
There is a way to run winbox from CMD. The winbox I use is the one in this project: https://github.com/nrlquaker/winbox-mac

And the command to open it with arguments is as follows:

/usr/bin/open /Applications/Winbox-mac.app --args {1} {2} {3}

Ideally, a Winbox entry should be created in RDM to be able to use the entries that are created in Windows.

Hi,

We've already been made aware of this in another thread and have therefore reopened our ticket. It's not planned in the current development cycle though, so we don't have an ETA for this.

Best regards,

Thank you very much!!!


I have tested it and it works perfectly.

Glad to hear it!

Do not hesitate if you have any issues!

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Can you do a similar implementation on the Linux side? I can run it as a command line execution from RDM and I do.

So basically I have winbox installed in wine and use RDM to execute a shell command {winbox [IP] [username] "somePassword"}

This launches winbox and logs in the session. It should be easy enough to implement the same as the mac or windows version.

Best regards,
Charl Pretorius

Hello Charl,

I opened a ticket to add this feature in RDM Linux. We will let you know once it is implemented.

Regards,

Hello again,
Winbox 4 has been released and now has a native application for MacOS, Windows and Linux:
https://forum.mikrotik.com/viewtopic.php?t=210505

It would be nice to add support for Winbox on Mac without having to use the repository mentioned above.

Hello,

That sounds interesting. We will have to make sure everything still works with the native application like sending the host, username, etc. If everything works, we could support it. I will open a ticket to look into it and we will keep you updated.

Best regards,

The latest version of RDM Mac (2024.3.5.1) is released and now use Winbox 4
If there's anything, don't hesitate to communicate with us.

Best regards,

Thank you very much once again. I will test it and confirm that it works correctly.

It works perfectly. Thank you very much!