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.
v22.0 [Mar 8, 2022]
- New feature: you can apply some specific settings to multiple sessions by right-clicking on a session, copying its settings, and pasting them to a group of sessions.
- New feature: you can now define your own default presets for sessions by right-clicking on a session and choosing "Save session settings as default presets".
- New feature: you can now edit your own default presets for sessions by clicking on the "Edit my sessions presets" button in the general settings window.
- New feature: in MobaXterm Professional Edition, you can now edit MobaXterm default presets for new sessions in the Customizer program.
- New feature: there is a new "Bash (external)" shell session that can be used in order to start an external (Git-Bash, Msys2, Cygwin, ...) distribution in a MobaXterm terminal tab.
- New feature: if MobaXterm detects an external bash installation (Git-Bash, Msys2, or Cygwin), it will propose it in the homepage right-click menu.
- New feature: the graphical browsers (SSH, SFTP, FTP, S3) now remember the folders you browsed in each session and allow you to jump directly to them using the top address bar.
- New feature: you can now start or pause the recording of the terminal output to a file using a new option available in the terminal contextual menu (Ctrl right-click on the terminal).
- Improvement: switched to the latest Xorg server version 21.1.3 (the previous Xorg version 1.20.4 is still available in the general settings) (fixes CVE-2021-4008, CVE-2021-4009, CVE-2021-4010, CVE-2021-4011).
- Improvement: suppressed the 2 seconds latency that was encountered the first time an application was run over X11-forwarding.
- Improvement: you can now select multiple files or folders in MobaDiff and perform actions (copy/delete) on all of them at once.
- Improvement: you can now search for some text in all the files listed in MobaDiff.
- Improvement: added Go and Json syntax highlighting in MobaTextEditor and MobaDiff.
- Improvement: the custom icons for your sessions can now be imported from png, ico, bmp or exe files.
- Improvement: added a "refresh file" feature in MobaTextEditor (this can be triggered with the "F5" shortcut).
- Improvement: the session tree which pops up when clicking on the "Sessions" top button now handles mouse wheel events.
- Improvement: added TLS 1.3 support in FTP sessions.
- Bugfix: the terminal title was not updated when the title length was only 1 character (like "/" or "~").
- Bugfix: the top toolbar buttons in MobaTextEditor were bright when they were pushed in dark mode.
- Bugfix: removed a "Clipboard not available" message in MobaTextEditor when the copy/paste operation was too fast.
- Bugfix: properly reset the proxy settings after editing a session that contains SOCKS parameters.
- Bugfix: the "Open with" contextual menu entry now works properly in FTP and SFTP sessions.
- Bugfix: the graphical SSH-browser used to display several empty entries when the "MaxSessions" parameter on the server was set to "1".
- Bugfix: with some SFTP servers, uploading a file immediately after connecting used to fail.
- Bugfix: the terminal scrollbar was sometimes hidden before resizing the terminal.
- Bugfix: better detection of files with spaces in the WSL graphical browser in "Localhost connection" mode.
- Bugfix: the "Save terminal output" dialog could be hidden behind a detached window.
- Bugfix: the menu bar was sometimes partly white in dark mode, with a high-resolution monitor.
Excellent tool for remotely controlling other computers. It allows you to establish a secure connection to another computer and view programs in text mode
