MobaXterm is an all-in-one program that embeds a wide variety of utilities for managing and administrating multiple computers connected to a common network. This way, advanced users can perform several tasks remotely.
Visually, the program has a well-crafted GUI, with big icons for buttons and well-placed tabs, so the user can easily access the desired utilities.
Moving on to features, MobaXterm has a complete package with plenty of functions and applications that a programmer, a web designer or an administrator needs in order to get the job done.
It supports SSH, Telnet, RDP, VNC, FTP, SFTP, Rlogin, XDMCP and Serial connections so you can create various types of sessions. Other than that, the integrated terminal can run Unix commands through bash, ls, cat, sed, grep, awk or rsync.
Also, thanks to X11-Forwarding, your remote display will use SSH for safe transportation, and the multi-tabbed interface will help you execute multiple tasks at the same time on numerous remote devices.
Other included features are a versatile session manager, a fully configured Xserver on X.org, and various add-ons and plugins.
In the end, I'd conclude that MobaXterm provides its users with plenty of features and tools so they can fulfill any type of remote management job.
Despite not being completely free, and having a time-consuming connection set-up, you should definitely give it a shot.
v7.4 [Jan 8, 2015]
- Bugfix: updated bash to version 4.1.13 to fix "shellshock" vulnerability (CVE-2014-6271, CVE-2014-7169).
- Improvement: added a "compact mode" in the "View" menu in order to save screen real estate.
- Bugfix: on German and French keyboards, the AltGr ] escape sequence was not working correctly.
- Bugfix: if Persistent Root folder has been set to a network share, a FAT16 or ExFAT filesystem, an error message was displayed at X server startup.
- Bugfix: on Windows 2000 and XP, MobaXterm logo background was not transparent.
- Bugfix: with persistent root folder, new customizations were sometimes not applied correctly.
- Improvement: the embedded browser now emulates the most recent engine available.
- Improvement: added a "tweet" button in the "About" window (please send a tweet about MobaXterm if you like it).
- Improvement: added the "xauth" command for the embedded X server.
- Bugfix: MobaSwInfo now lists install software correctly on Windows 8/8.1 64 bit.
- Bugfix: Corrected the "Shift Tab" shortcut in OpenSuse "Yast" installer.
- Improvement: improved the way symlinks are handled via SSH or SFTP.
- Bugfix: Corrected the Gnome session environment which did not start correctly through SSH when remote user had TCSH as default shell.
- Bugfix: fixed a potential indexing issue when deleting a SSH tunnel.
- Improvement: added a new telnet setting which prevents MobaXterm from closing when a telnet session is active.
- Bugfix: corrected resizing issues with RDP sessions.
- Improvement: added a new commandline setting in order to allow MobApt to work with local Cygwin repositories (e.g. MobApt -l /drives/c/MyCygwinRepository).
- Bugfix: corrected an issue with tar and hardlink decompression.
- Improvement: added 2 more sections to the embedded documentation with detailed explanations about global settings and sessions settings.
- Improvement: added a lot of new questions/answers in the FaQ section.
Excellent tool for remotely controlling other computers. It allows you to establish a secure connection to another computer and view programs in text mode
