Dual monitor rdp connection

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Hi,

I have a windows terminal server 2003 and a user, who makes a terminal
server connection via RDP, wants to have a dual monitor.

Does anyone have experiencie with this?
Does a sessions works well with 2 monitors?

Thx
 
Re: Dual monitor rdp connection

HDI wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a windows terminal server 2003 and a user, who makes a terminal
> server connection via RDP, wants to have a dual monitor.
>
> Does anyone have experiencie with this?
> Does a sessions works well with 2 monitors?
>
> Thx

If the terminal user has a system (whether PC or thin client) which
stretches their desktop across two screens - fine. But TS 2003 itself is
not capable of supporting two monitors as such.

If they wish to use a single TS session on one monitor and the rest of
their Windows system on the other (or something similar), then dual
monitor usage works as normal. Or if they wish to have two TS sessions
one on each monitor (even if both TS sessions connect to the same TS
server - if that has been permitted). Or...

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Re: Dual monitor rdp connection

In the Target: box of the Properties for the Remote Desktop Connection on
the client, add the /span option.

The command in the Target box will then look like this:

%systemroot%\system32\mstsc.exe /span

With this option, the remote computer will see the client desktop a single
"monitor" that is the size of the two monitors combined.

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"HDI" <hdinf@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Hi,
>
> I have a windows terminal server 2003 and a user, who makes a terminal
> server connection via RDP, wants to have a dual monitor.
>
> Does anyone have experiencie with this?
> Does a sessions works well with 2 monitors?
>
> Thx
 
RE: Dual monitor rdp connection

As another post indicated, using mstsc.exe /span will make your RDP session
spread across your two local monitors. It's an ugly "solution" though because
maximizing a window in your RDP session will cause it to maximize across both
monitors rather than to just one monitor. I work around the problem by using
a program called SplitView installed on the remote PC I'm RDP'ing into.
SplitView divides your "single" RDP screen into regions, forcing dialog boxes
to one screen or the other rather than opening in the middle across both
monitors, and when you maximize a window it gets constrained to one monitor
(as it should). It is by no means a perfect solution, but for the most part
SplitView works as advertised. Definitely better for me than the default
behavior.

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"HDI" wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have a windows terminal server 2003 and a user, who makes a terminal
> server connection via RDP, wants to have a dual monitor.
>
> Does anyone have experiencie with this?
> Does a sessions works well with 2 monitors?
>
> Thx
>
 
Re: Dual monitor rdp connection

You may use mstsc /span, but it has some restrictions on your client
monitor configuration. E.g. All monitors must have same height, aligned in
a row and primary monitor must be on the left.

Thanks

Rong


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"HDI" <hdinf@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:64998b63-f033-4dd5-a691-6527b5e6681d@m73g2000hsh.googlegroups.com...
> Hi,
>
> I have a windows terminal server 2003 and a user, who makes a terminal
> server connection via RDP, wants to have a dual monitor.
>
> Does anyone have experiencie with this?
> Does a sessions works well with 2 monitors?
>
> Thx
 
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