Need Enhanced Remote Computing? Try MobaXterm

MobaXterm is a complete toolbox for remote computing. The application is an enhanced terminal for Windows with an X11 server, a tabbed SSH client and several other network tools for remote computing (VNC, RDP, telnet, rlogin). MobaXterm has the essential Unix commands for Windows desktop, in a single portable exe file.

Key Features Include:

• Free X server fully configured (based on Xorg).
• Tabbed terminal based on PuTTY / MinTTY with antialiased fonts and macro support.
• Easy DISPLAY exportation from any remote host.
• X11-Forwarding capability in OpenSSH.
• Several Unix/Linux commands based on Cygwin (rsync, wget, sed, awk, grep, cd, ls, cat, cp).
• A session manager with all the network clients you need: RDP, VNC, SSH, telnet, rsh, FTP, SFTP and XDMCP.
• Program without installation that you can start from an USB stick.
• Light and portable application, packaged in a single executable.

The following updates have been undertaken in this latest version of MobaXterm:

• Improvement: MobaXterm is now compatible with Windows 10 “Technical Preview”
• Improvement: upgraded X server to version 1.16.2.
• Improvement: upgraded bash to version 4.1.17.
• Improvement: added a “Reconnect” button for SFTP (allows you to reconnect the SFTP browser in case of a network failure or a firewall disconnection).
• Bugfix: when exiting “Compact mode” on professional edition, the “Unregistered” bar is not displayed anymore.
• Improvement: improved “Compact mode” (settings and menus improvements).
• Improvement: improved scrolling in the left sidebar using mouse wheel, even when the focus is set to the terminal.
• Improvement: The main window title and the taskbar title are automatically changed to the active tab name.
• Improvement: MobaXterm can now import mRemoteNG sessions.
• Bugfix: corrected a bug in “Nimesweeper” (arrow keys were not working correctly).
• Improvement: improved main window for high DPI monitors.
• Improvement: improved OpenGL support in X server.
• Improvement: added a new setting in VNC and RDP sessions in order to disable the settings bar.
• Improvement: Added a “ASCII” button in the SFTP browser in order to toggle ASCII/Binary mode for file transfers.
• Improvement: Added a new button in the SFTP browser in order to toggle show/hide hidden files.
• Bugfix: in some cases, the “Ctrl” key was incorrectly detected as pressed after using the “New tab” shortcut.
• Improvement: COM ports are detected automatically each time you go to the “Serial” session manager (not only at   MobaXterm startup).
• Improvement: MobApt is now able to force the installation of Cygwin tools.
• Bugfix: Corrected a recurrent issue with private SSH keys rights.
• Improvement: Added a graphical warning when the remote host identification has changed with a tool to reset the alarm.
• Improvement: Added keyboard interactive authentication type for SSH gateway.
• Bugfix: corrected a graphical bug in the graphical SSH tunnels tool: start buttons were not drawn correctly in skinned     mode.
• Improvement: Added an automatic detection of any deleted file in the temp folder during execution.
• Improvement: Added the “showkey” tool.
• Improvement: Added the “killX” tool.
• Improvement: MobaTextEditor can now indent/unindent blocks with Tab/Shift+Tab.
• Improvement: Updated documentation with new features.
• Improvement: Added the “glxgears” and “glxinfo” tools for Xserver OpenGL tests.
• Improvement: Added a new “AutoReconnect” setting in MobaSSHTunnel which automatically reconnects SSH tunnels after a network failure.
• Improvement: Improved the way MobaXterm is started in order to avoid issues with sandboxes.
• Improvement: Added some warnings when using a non-persistent HOME directory and using ssh-keygen.

You can download MobaXterm 7.4 from FileHippo.com, today.

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