Dual monitor rdp connection

[Guest HDI]

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

[Guest Rod]

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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[Guest Bruce Sanderson]

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

[Guest WillW]

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

>

[Guest Rong Chen [MSFT]]

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