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.
v20.3 [Jun 4, 2020]
- New feature: a new keyboard shortcut (Ctrl SPACE by default) allows you to quickly choose and run a macro directly from the terminal.
- New feature: you can now define multiple SSH jump hosts (or SSH "gateways") for SSH, Telnet, VNC and RDP sessions.
- Improvement: default syntax highlighting definition for terminals (local or remote) has been greatly improved with enhanced support for shell scripts and network devices.
- Improvement: added dark mode to MobaTextEditor.
- Improvement: macros are now encrypted using your Master Password, in order to keep sensitive information confidential.
- Improvement: added a way to set a named pipe instead of a real COM port in Serial sessions (useful for connecting to virtual COM ports).
- Improvement: added an experimental setting in browser sessions in order to choose "Firefox" or "Chrome" browser engines.
- Improvement: improved detection of running MobaXterm sub-processes in order to increase startup speed.
- Improvement: decreased embedded resources size by compressing them with a better algorithm.
- Improvement: options set in MobaTextEditor are now remembered after MobaXterm restart.
- Improvement: added a new syntax for log files in MobaTextEditor.
- Improvement: MobaTextEditor window size and position is properly reset if a change in monitors configuration is detected.
- Improvement: when recording a macro, if you paste some text, it is now recorded into the macro.
- Improvement: better support for "docker" with bash completion, automatic terminal and DISPLAY setting.
- Improvement: better support for kubernetes "kubectl" command when run from local terminal.
- Improvement: added a link to the "winpty" tool, which allows running commands in "DOS-mode".
- Improvement: the "Use Windows PATH" and "Use icons cache" options are now set by default.
- Improvement: added 2 new fun terminal games, soliterm and termwalk.
- Improvement: increased speed of shared sessions refresh.
- Improvement: improved SCP transfer speed by disabling compression when the file to be transferred is already compressed.
- Improvement: increased stored credentials retrieval speed, which leads to faster SSH authentication.
- Improvement: added a new setting in "File/folder" sessions in order to add command-line switches to the external program.
- Improvement: added some more information to the hint which is displayed when the mouse cursor is over a session.
- Improvement: when a SSH connection is made on a disabled tab, automatic switch to this tab after successful SSH connection is now disabled.
- Improvement: added more information like stack trace into MobaXterm log file in case of unhandled exception.
- Improvement: when you start a Windows command in ZSH (64 bits) shell (e.g. ping or ipconfig), special characters are now properly displayed.
- Improvement: you can now start PowerShell 7 from the local terminal by typing the "pwsh" command if you have it in your Windows PATH.
- Improvement: in CMD sessions, the Ctrl C character is no more displayed in the terminal.
- Improvement: user keyboard shortcuts are now displayed in terminal right-click menu.
- Improvement: removed executable link to the deprecated Windows library "version.dll".
- Improvement: autodetection of buggy SSH servers which send inconsistent ED25519 hostkey signatures and automatically switch to RSA hostkey.
- Improvement: changed executable SHA1 signature algorithm to dual signature (SHA1 / SHA256).
- Improvement: improved some icons for better compatibility High-DPI monitors.
- Improvement: when you launch PowerShell from within MobaXterm terminal, the keyboard and colors configuration are automatically set.
- Bugfix: fixed some connections errors when using an SSH jump host to connect to an IPv6 SSH server.
- Bugfix: fixed a potential issue when checking the "Remember me" setting in the Master Password dialog box.
- Bugfix: when the "cache icons" setting was enabled, icons colors were not changed when modifying black intensity in dark mode.
- Bugfix: syntax highlighting was disabled on the first visible line of the terminal.
- Bugfix: free memory earlier after unpacking resources (instead of waiting for the end of the whole unpacking process).
- Bugfix: when you close a popup window using Escape key, the key sequence is no more transferred to the terminal.
- Bugfix: fixed issues during folders conversions to "CurrentPath" or "MyDocuments" folders.
- Bugfix: the title bar was white when dark mode was activated on latest Windows 10 update of May 2020.
Excellent tool for remotely controlling other computers. It allows you to establish a secure connection to another computer and view programs in text mode
