MobaXterm also identifies if SSH is available on each device. It shows three of my Pi’s and reveals their IP addresses. In this example my addresses are of the form 192.168.1.* Ensure the “IP range” represents the IP address pattern on your network.Click the “Tools” tab on the left hand edge of the window.To do this you can either run : ifconfigįrom the command line on the Pi or use MobaXterm’s built-in network scanner. To connect remotely to your devices you need to know what IP address they are using on your network. These methods are explained in my enable SSH on the Raspberry Pi tutorial. Make sure you enable it either using “raspi-config” on the command line or the Raspberry Pi Configuration utility on the Raspbian desktop. SSH is disabled by default on the Raspberry Pi if you are using Raspbian. The portable version is also a zip file which can be extracted once downloaded. Run the installer as you would with any other Windows application. The installable version is a zip file which should be extracted once downloaded. They offer an installable version or a portable version.

To download the free version visit the Official MobaXterm Download Page.

It makes managing a collection of session windows easy and is a perfect upgrade from the basic version of Putty. Some Pi applications launch from the command line as a windowed application (e.g.

Portable application with no installation required.

Sessions can be “detached” into separate windows.

Remote terminal (SSH, telnet, rlogin, Mosh).

The only real restriction in the free version is that you can only create pre-sets (sessions) for 12 devices. MobaXterm Home Edition is free for personal use and it is a great alternative to Putty which is perhaps more well known within the Raspberry Pi user community. I particularly like it because I can run multiple terminal sessions on my PC while also being able to drag-n-drop files from my Pi. I use it to access my Raspberry Pi projects over my local network. MobaXterm is an application for Windows with an X11 server, a tabbed SSH client and several network tools for remote access.

Mobaxterm portable edition