Winbox is application used to remotely and to configure Mikrotik RouterOS. RouterOS configuration would be easier to use winbox rather than using the command line. But Winbox is only available for the Windows platform with the extension *.exe, so by default Winbox can not running on platform GNU/Linux.
Remote RouterOS on Windows using Winbox is a natural thing to do, to simply type the ip address from server mikrotik winbox We also can already be downloaded from the server mikrotik. It is not commonly done by a novice user RouterOS is what if we use the platform GNU / Linux like Ubuntu
Before you can running winbox on ubuntu 11.10, first should be installed is Wine application. Wine is a Windows emulator on ubuntu, which allows running Windows programs on GNU/Linux machine.
Install wine application (windowsEmulator) on ubuntu system
sudo apt-get install wine
Download and run Winbox
wget http://www.mikrotik.com/download/winbox.exe wine winbox.exe
Screenshot Winbox on Ubuntu 11.10
