Setting up SSH tunnel port forwarding is easy…įor storing passwords and SSH key authentication MobaXterm can manage that and also save passwords (if you’re using something that uses password authentication which you shouldn’t be) securely.
If you don’t like the Windows 10 everything is flat look or you want a Dark Theme or want it to look like you’re on OSX there are a plenty of skins to chose from… Right-click can be configured to paste like PuTTY or provide a menu (also if pasting multiple-lines it will display a warning which is nice.). Terminals can also be dragged off to float (more like PuTTY terminals do). You can also open multiple MobaXterm Windows. Terminals can be tabbed, or split horizontal, vertical, or a grid of 4. There’s a place to configure key words that if they show up on the terminal are highlighted in certain colors the defaults are useful when reviewing logs. The terminal itself is actually PuTTY under the hood but with some added features. I can now run Gnome Mines on Windows via X11 Forwarding! It’s such a classic I don’t know what Microsoft was thinking by removing that. One of my favorite programs in the world, Minesweeper, no longer comes with Windows 10. Below all I did was open an SSH session to my Linux VM running CrashPlan, ran “CrashPlanDesktop” (which is a graphical program) and it opened up the window locally in Windows. X11 forwarding works out of the box with no setup. SSH into a server and the left pane shows an SFTP session which automatically follows where I am in the terminal and allows dragging and dropping files back and forth between file explorer! No more having to open up WinSCP just to transfer a quick file.įiles can also be opened directly and edited using a built-in or an external editor. Integrated SFTP File Transfers on the Terminal
PuTTY is a good program, but it doesn’t do four things for me: As I was downloading PuTTY I thought: there has got to be something better than PuTTY. I had just re-installed Windows 10 to fix an updating issue. I recently switched to MobaXterm Professional from PuTTY.