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.
v23.0 [Jan 29, 2023]
- Improvement: added a new web browser engine based on Microsoft Edge WebView.
- Improvement: added a new RDP "Zoom" feature that allows you to specify a Zoom level for your remote RDP session.
- Improvement: added a new RDP setting "Authentication level" that is useful when you use RDP over SSL.
- Improvement: added a new RDP setting "Color depth" in order to specify the desired color depth on the client side.
- Improvement: added a new RDP setting "Redirect smartcards" that allows using local smartcards on the server side, even for authentication.
- Improvement: arranged RDP advanced settings in a more convenient fashion.
- Improvement: added proxy support in browser sessions based on Edge/WebView.
- Improvement: improved VNC sessions overall speed with embedded engine.
- Improvement: increased the width of port fields for better reading of port numbers greater than 9999.
- Improvement: added a new setting in the professional Customizer program to disable the Remote Monitoring feature.
- Improvement: it is now possible to select a 64-bit terminal from the Customizer program.
- Improvement: the plugins are now unpacked after installation when the Slash directory is set to the "Program Files" folder.
- Improvement: you can now include 64-bit plugins in MobaXterm Customizer.
- Bugfix: fixed an issue with the SSH command line client when a jump host was set and the Slash directory was set to the "Program Files" folder.
- Bugfix: fixed a potential crash on VNC sessions when the new embedded engine and an SSH gateway were set.
- Bugfix: the local terminal setting was not properly restored when importing an old customization file into the Customizer program.
- Bugfix: fixed the OpenSSH daemon start-up when the slash directory was set to "same as application" in the customizer.
- Bugfix: fixed Unicode characters display in the SSH key sessions fields.
- Bugfix: fixed Unicode characters display in the start-up folder sessions fields.
- Bugfix: fixed Unicode characters display in the persistent Home and persistent Slash folders fields.
Excellent tool for remotely controlling other computers. It allows you to establish a secure connection to another computer and view programs in text mode
