In my previous post I had shown you how to install Wine on Mac OS X 10.7 Lion and 10.8 Mountain Lion. As a Mikrotik router administrator and a Mac OS X user, able to run Mikrotik Winbox on Mac OS X Lion is a must even though I can still use ssh or telnet to remote Mikrotik routers. However, accessing Mikrotik via Winbox is much easier than via ssh or telnet.
This article shows you how easy it is running Mikrotik Winbox on Mac OS X, in this case I use Mac OS X Lion 10.7.2. It should work on Snow Leopard, Leopard, Tiger and the latest OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion.
Download Winbox Para Mac
1. Install the Wine first. You can follow my previous tutorial on how to install Wine on Mac OS X.
Winbox download, Download Accelerator Plus 10, Download Accelerator Plus 10.0.5.3, Motobreath 1.6. Winbox for Mac. I have complied “Winbox” by MikroTik with Wine in order to make it usable on Mac. Download one of the versions below (I recommend the newest). In this version of Winbox V2.2.18, there are facilities that are slightly more special than the recently launched version. Namely, we can scan Ip Address and also Mac Address from our router Mikrotik.
2. Download Winbox application from Mikrotik website.
3. Once it is download, run the Winbox via wine as follow:
Winbox 3.7 Download For Mac
If no error, the Winbox application should run successfully on Mac OS X as the image below:
Free Download Winbox For Mac Os X
As a Mikrotik router administrator and a Mac OS X user, able to run Mikrotik Winbox on Mac OS X Lion is a must even though I can still use ssh or telnet to remote Mikrotik routers. However, accessing Mikrotik via Winbox is much easier than via ssh or telnet.