# 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](https://mobaxterm.mobatek.net/download.html).

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

### Download

<table class="plainlinks imbox imbox-style" id="bkmrk-download-mobaxterm-h" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td class="mbox-image">[![windows (Custom).png](https://help.cs.uwindsor.ca/uploads/images/gallery/2024-07/scaled-1680-/HMBwindows-custom.png)](https://help.cs.uwindsor.ca/uploads/images/gallery/2024-07/HMBwindows-custom.png)</td><td class="mbox-text">[Download Mobaxterm Home Edition for Windows](https://mobaxterm.mobatek.net/download-home-edition.html)</td></tr></tbody></table>

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#### <span class="mw-headline" id="bkmrk-installing-mobaxterm-1">Installing Mobaxterm</span>

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](https://mobaxterm.mobatek.net/features.html)

#### SSH

**<span class="mw-headline" id="bkmrk-configuring-a-sessio-1">Configuring a session to connect to delta.cs.uwindsor.ca</span>**

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Enter password on the second window

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#### X11 Forwarding

**<span class="mw-headline" id="bkmrk-requisite-x-server-i-1">The requisite X server is embedded!</span>**

<dl id="bkmrk-mobaxterm-has-an-emb"><dd>Mobaxterm has an embedded X server with X11 forwarding enabled by default, so nothing else is required to run GUI applications.</dd></dl>#### SSH using Mac OSX

Launch Terminal from the Application/Utilities.

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You will see the following window. Enter ssh &lt;youruserid&gt;@delta.cs.uwindsor.ca

In the example below, Sanjay is my user ID.

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