Software for Remote Access
Applications and programs commonly used to access the main computing server used by Computer Science Students. The primary server used for coursework is Delta ( delta.cs.uwindsor.ca ).

Mobaxterm
MobaXterm is your  ultimate toolbox for remote computing . In a single Windows application. It is an enhanced terminal for Windows with an X11 server, tabbed SSH client, and network tools. The free home edition is available at  Mobaxterm . 

 The free Mobaxterm Home Edition with full X server and SSH client is available for Windows. 

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 Installing Mobaxterm 

 The Installer is provided as a ZIP file; save it and open it. Extract all the files (*.dat and *.msi) into a directory. Go to the extraction sub-directory and run the MSI installer. Accept all the default settings. 

 Using Mobaxterm 

 A full description of Mobaxterm's features 

 SSH 

 Configuring a session to connect to delta.cs.uwindsor.ca 

 

 Enter password on the second window 

 

 

 X11 Forwarding 

 The requisite X server is embedded! 

 

 Mobaxterm has an embedded X server with X11 forwarding enabled by default, so nothing else is required to run GUI applications. 

 

 SSH using Mac OSX 

 Launch Terminal from the Application/Utilities. 

 

 You will see the following window. Enter ssh <youruserid>@delta.cs.uwindsor.ca 

 In the example below, Sanjay is my user ID. 

 Enter your password.

Filezilla
The free FileZilla Client is available for Windows , macOS and Linux . 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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 If you are running Linux, just use the package manager for your distribution to install it. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Using FileZilla 

 SFTP 

 Using the Quickconnect feature 

 

 

 

 

 Use these settings: 

 

 Set Host to an FQDN, for example delta.cs.uwindsor.ca  or ( electron.cs.uwindsor.ca ) 

 Set Username to your UWinID (all in lowercase characters) 

 Set Password to your campus password 

 Set Port to 22 (this is required if the host URL does not include the protocol prefix!) 

 

 Press the Quickconnect button to open a new SFTP file transfer session. 

 Configuring a connection using the Site Manager 

 

 Open the Site Manager from the File menu. 

 Use these settings in the General tab: 

 

 Set Protocol to SFTP - SSH File Transfer Protocol 

 Set Host to an FQDN, for example myweb.cs.uwindsor.ca 

 Set Username to your UWinID (all in lowercase characters) 

 Set Password to your campus password 

 

 Use this setting in the Transfer Settings tab: 

 

 Check Limit number of simultaneous connections 

 You can set the Maximum number of connections to between 1 and 5. If this number is too high, the server may blacklist your IP for attempting to open too many sessions simultaneously.