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.
v11.1 [Jan 28, 2019]
- Improvement: eliminated flickering effects in remote monitoring bar.
- Improvement: improved MobaXterm startup speed by decreasing resources size.
- Improvement: improved size of main executable by increasing compression of embedded resources.
- Improvement: Windows PATH is now appended to the terminal PATH in the dropdown terminal (Ctrl Alt M).
- Improvement: you can now manually select COM interface speed for Serial sessions.
- Improvement: you can now manually type a path in folder selection dialogs.
- Improvement: improved "ShiftFnKeys" terminal type with proper key sequences for Shift F9 and Shift F11.
- Improvement: in TCPCapture tool, a new interactive console menu allows you to choose which network adapter to use for capture.
- Bugfix: fixed a potential issue with AltGr key into RDP sessions.
- Bugfix: fixed checkboxes which were not properly painted when using very high DPI (more than 250%).
- Bugfix: typing the first character of a file/folder in SSH-browser now gets you to that file/folder.
- Bugfix: files and folders were displayed twice when pressing F5 without releasing the key in SSH-browser (SCP mode).
- Bugfix: fixed a potential freeze issue when trying to connect to a SFTP session and authentication fails 3 times.
- Bugfix: middle-click on an SSH-browser element copies full path to the terminal.
- Bugfix: fixed setxkbmap command which was not working in local terminal.
- Bugfix: prevented MobaXterm for asking twice to close open sessions when closing MobaXterm
Excellent tool for remotely controlling other computers. It allows you to establish a secure connection to another computer and view programs in text mode
