General • winbox64.exe on Wine Stable on macos Monterey can't discover Neighbors via MAC address?

Hi, everyone--

Is anyone else having this problem? I am running winbox64.exe on Wine 9 stable on macos Monterey. It runs fine if I connect by IPv4 address, but the one use case for which I really need winbox64.exe is when the RouterBoard is only accessible via MAC address. Sadly, for whatever reason, winbox64.exe never sees any Neighbors by MAC address (or IP address).

I get this output at the command line:

wine64 winbox64.exe
creating Window Class routeros_null
creating Window Class routeros_connect
DPI=96
EMS=13
ERROR: bad bmp format id=2329
biPlanes=1, biBitCount=1, biCompression=0
ERROR: bad bmp format id=3329
biPlanes=1, biBitCount=1, biCompression=0
creating Window Class routeros_dbl_canvas
rescaleDPI starting-dpi=96, zoom=0 result=96
discovery started
rescaning
bind: 10048
loadConfig C:\users\dchang0\AppData\Roaming\Mikrotik\Winbox\Addresses.cdb
rescaning
bind: 10048
rescaning
bind: 10048
rescaning
bind: 10048
rescaning
bind: 10048
rescaning
...

It continues indefinitely. The error code 10048 seems to indicate port already in use, but it does not indicate which port. Also, it is likely that this is a built-in extra security feature of macos blocking access to the port. I tried running wine64 as root with sudo but it won't start up because root doesn't have a home directory into which it can write a .wine configuration folder.

If you've figured out how to get around this, please let me know. Thanks in advance!

Statistics: Posted by dchang0 — Sun Feb 04, 2024 12:58 am

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