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mRemoteNG vs SmarTTY

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When comparing mRemoteNG vs SmarTTY, the Slant community recommends mRemoteNG for most people. In the question“What are the best SSH clients for Windows?” mRemoteNG is ranked 18th while SmarTTY is ranked 24th. The most important reason people chose mRemoteNG is:

Open source.

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What are the best SSH clients for Windows?

Pros

Pro
It's free

Open source.

Pro
Import/Export feature

Allows to share connections.

Pro
Can open multiple sessions in different tabs

Pro
Connection manager

Lets you organize your connections into folders with icons as well and allows nested folders as well.

Pro
Supports multiple protocols

RDP (Remote Desktop/Terminal Server)
VNC (Virtual Network Computing)
ICA (Citrix Independent Computing Architecture)
SSH (Secure Shell)
Telnet (TELecommunication NETwork)
HTTP/HTTPS (Hypertext Transfer Protocol)
rlogin
Raw Socket Connections

Pro
Inheritance from folder properties

Inheritance makes it possible to store properties on folder basis and let the underlying connections inherit this info.

Pro
Multi-tabbed with SFTP

Supports telnet and serial port as well.

Pro
Free

Pro
Smart Terminal

Open and edit remote files with Windows Explorer - similar experience.

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Cons

Con
Private keys needs to be managed on PuTTY

Since mRemoteNG is integrated with PuTTY (included in the installation), all private key needs to be configured on PuTTY itself and then the PuTTY session needs to be selected on mRemoteNG.