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How to use smartcards with SSH connections With MobaXterm, you can use a certificate stored on your smartcard for your SSH sessions. MobaXterm uses the Microsoft “CryptoAPI” mechanism. Currently, MobaXterm supports only CAPI certificates; FIDO and PKCS certificates are not supported. CAPI certificates are supported by most types of Smartcards. Follow these steps to use your smartcard: For Yubikey users, please download and install the smart card minidriver from this address: https://www.yubico.com/support/download/smart-card-drivers-tools/ Start MobaXterm and create a new SSH session. Read more »

Importing sessions from a CSV file In MobaXterm you can import a list of sessions using a CSV file. The import wizard is available from a right click on Users sessions > Import sessions from third-party programs in the sessions panel: Here is an example of the format to use in the CSV file: Session type,Remote Host,Username,Port SSH,host1,user1,port1 SSH,host2,user2,port2 Here is a list of the available options to use in the CSV file: Folder name Session name Session type Hostname Username Port number Key file Command Proxy type Proxy host Proxy user Proxy port Proxy cmd Key Cert Host Cert Gateway host Gateway user Gateway port MobaXterm will automatically recognize the column type. Read more »

In MobaXterm you can share sessions between your team members. Here is a guide showing how to accomplish this. Share the sessions between the team members: 1. Create a folder with the sessions you want to share with your team 2. Right-click on the folder and select “Share these sessions with my team” 3. In this menu you can select: - Which are the sessions that will be shared - Where the shared sessions file will be saved on your computer - Who can modify, add, or delete the shared sessions. Read more »

Are you aware that MobaXterm enables you to easily export your settings and import them into different machines? To facilitate this, we’ve added a straightforward feature. You can access it by navigating to the ‘Settings’ menu and selecting ‘Export configuration’. This feature allows you to export your desired settings in the .mobaconf format. You can choose the settings you want to export: Following this, you can import these settings into a new machine. Read more »

Hi everyone, Today, we will try to give you a simple explanation of a life-saver feature: SSH tunnels and port-forwarding! There are many cases in which you will find SSH-tunnels very useful: when your remote server is not directly accessible (behind a firewall or in a DMZ) when your remote program only binds to 127.0.0.1 (if you are using a mysql instance only bound to localhost on your web server for instance) when you want to secure a protocol (like VNC or X11) by transporting it through an encrypted SSH channel when you connect to a home computer, NAS or Raspberry Pi from the Internet when you need to get through a network equipment where only SSH protocol is allowed when you open a connection to a remote server and need to easily open a reverse communication channel from the remote server to your local computer In all these situations, you will be able to achieve your goal easily thanks to SSH-tunnels. Read more »

Hi everyone! So you have a new Raspberry Pi device and you just want to unleash its potential, but you do not have any monitor, keyboard and mouse to connect it? In this article, we will show you in 3 simple steps how to set up and control your Raspberry Pi device without any monitor, keyboard or mouse! You will only need to download MobaXterm on your Windows desktop. Step 1: Find my Raspberry Pi IP address We assume you have a Raspberry Pi with a distribution already installed on SD card. Read more »

Hi everyone! We receive a lot of emails asking how to keep X11-forwarding working after changing user to root inside a SSH session in MobaXterm. This is by default not allowed on Unix/Linux systems, because the X11 display connection belongs to the user you used to log with when connecting to your remote SSH server. X11-forwarding mechanism does not allow anyone to use the open display. However, in some cases you may need to start a graphical application like nedit or firefox in a sudo or su context. Read more »

If you have to set some configuration options in MobaXterm, you would probably go to the MobaXterm configuration window. However, in order to keep a clean and simple graphical interface, some advanced settings are not displayed in the main configuration window: Some options can be set in MobaXterm Customizer program Some settings can be specified using commandline parameters Some advanced settings can be set manually, directly in MobaXterm configuration file MobaXterm.ini We previously discussed about MobaXterm command-line parameters and MobaXterm Customization capabilities in another post, so we will now introduce some ways to modify MobaXterm settings directly into its “MobaXterm.ini” configuration file. Read more »

When you purchase MobaXterm Pro Edition, you get access to a registered copy of MobaXterm and another program called Customizer. Using MobaXterm Customizer, you will be able to generate customized copies of MobaXterm with your own logo and your default settings. Settings specified in the Customizer will be hard-coded within the generated executable itself. We already discussed about MobaXterm customization in another article. We will now try to explain in details how to secure your MobaXterm installation for your company use. Read more »

When you purchase MobaXterm Pro Edition, you get access to a registered copy of MobaXterm and another program called Customizer. Using MobaXterm Customizer, you will be able to generate customized copies of MobaXterm with your own logo and your default settings. Settings specified in the Customizer will be hard-coded within the generated executable itself. In order to perform this operation, just launch MobaXterm_Professional_X.X.exe After having entered your license key, you can select to customize your MobaXterm package. Read more »

If you use MobaXterm extensively, you may need to know some advanced commandline settings in order to specify how MobaXterm should be started and to specify if it has to perform some automatic actions just after startup. This can be useful in order to automate some repetitive tasks or in order to include MobaXterm in a script. Here is an exhaustive list of commandline parameters you can use: You can run a shell script directly at MobaXterm startup. Read more »

Hi everyone, Welcome to this new Mobatek blog! In this website, we will post articles about MobaXterm and other Mobatek software in order to keep you informed about our latest news and to share with you some insights into our products. You may find in this blog some useful tips and tricks for your daily use of MobaXterm, SSH, X server, Unix/Linux tools and remote computing in general. If you want to receive new articles, you can follow us on Twitter or subscribe to the RSS feed. Read more »