best ssh program for Windows?

Question

I know of Putty. I currently use rxvt (via Cygwin).

Is there a more "integrated" terminal program for Windows out there? e.g. something closer to KDE's kconsole -- where I can have multiple shells all tabbed within the same window. etc.

Solution 1

So far as I know, Putty is the best open-source non-commercial SSH client for Windows. For tabbed sessions there is http://puttycm.free.fr/cms/

You could also look at commercial programs such as Reflection for Unix and SecureCRT. (Edit:) They both offer tabbed sessions.

Another option might be Putty + screen (man screen)?

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(Edit:)

Summary of programs suggested in this & other answers and comments

In no particular order.

• Putty _RGB
• Putty + PuttyCM _RGB
• Putty + screen _RGB
• Reflection _RGB - $120
• SecureCRT _RGB - $99
• Anzio Lite _RGB - $40
• mRemote _gWaldo
• mRemoteNG _{Mircea Vutcovici}
• Kitty - a Putty fork _UniDyne
• Poderosa _Cypher
• ssh from Cygwin OpenSSH] _{Steven Monai}
• Absolute Telnet _Adrien
• MobaXterm _miguelo

_{Prices for commercial products are indicative only, check before choosing}

I thought it would be useful to have a concise list. For votes, see also below.

Solution 2

kiTTY is an up-to-date port of the venerable old puTTY. It supports tabbed sessions and a bunch of other niceties/tweaks to the original puTTY.

www.9bis.net/kitty

Unfortunately, not many people know about this fork yet. If you are currently using puTTY, I would highly recommend kiTTY.

Solution 3

I am using SecureCRT.

Solution 4

I know you already accepted an answer, but I hate Putty and there IS another tool out there for Windows users. A lot of people say Putty is the best - probably because it's the only tool they know about for Windows clients. I thought it was the only option as well until I found Poderosa.

It offers multiple panes/sessions per window, multiple tabs, simple font/color customizations, background images/colors - and probably a few more things I haven't found yet.

It's the only tool I use now for telnet/ssh/console(serial) terminal shell sessions. It might be what you're looking for.

Solution 5

check for MobaXterm, a terminal console for windows which allows ssh, public keys, X forwards, multi-tabs, and many linux commands in windows environment.

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Comments

[Steven Monday]

Just to be pedantic, Cygwin's rxvt isn't an ssh client. Cygwin's ssh client is OpenSSH, from the OpenBSD project.

[Aaron F.]

not pedantic at all, i welcome the correction, thanks.

[0xC0000022L]

+1 for the pedantic comment :)

[Sam Go]

+1 for securecrt. using it last 8 years, imho the best.

[Mircea Vutcovici]

There is a fork of it - mRemote NG. You can find it at mremoteng.org

[Sirex]

but but.. putty is the best !

[Dan McClain]

+1 for Putty+screen. Screen has the nice side effect that if you ssh connection get terminated, your processes do not.

[gWaldo]

Thanks for the heads-up. I had downloaded a the installers and source just-in-case

[gWaldo]

mRemote (and mRemoteNG) allow for multiple sessions in separate tabs in the same window.

[Cypher]

@Dennis: granted, but it works and the source IS available for special circumstances.

[vishnu]

another +1 for screen.

[Oskar Duveborn]

+1 for mentioning Reflection, oh the nostalgia... I recall it being bloody expensive though? ^^

[0xC0000022L]

+1 for the nice summary edited in

[Robert]

I use Kitty since last one tear or so. It's really nice. It's most of the missing features Putty doesnt have

[jmreicha]

How do you get tabs to work in KiTTY???

[Jayesh Shinde]

tmux is a nice alternative to screen as well. Among other things, it supports shared sessions without needing super user privileges for configuration.

[ItsGC]

Reflection is a hellish piece of software. I worked Help Desk at a big corporate investment banking firm and it refused to install from the .msi package if the user wasn't local administrator. I did not have access to the gpo that was pushing it.