Hello Angus,
Your last link on the MSDN blogs was pretty good. It appears
it's a "RDS" (Remote Desktop Services - new name for Terminal Services) related
feature, which is 7 or 2008 R2. Only way to know for sure is to try it. I'll
recommend to the client to proceed and will post back if it's approved and the
results. I'm only concerned about RDP's support for multi-monitor on the
desktop level.
Thanks again,
-Ben
From: Angus Scott-Fleming [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Tuesday, May 17, 2011 5:29 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: connecting TO a XP PC via RDP AND getting multi-monitor support
On 17 May 2011 at 10:49, Ben Serebin wrote:
> I'm well aware of the "span" feature in RDC 6.0 for outbound RDP
> connections to a multi-monitor environment, BUT I'm trying to do something
> DIFFERENT. I need to know and find something documented that says inbound
> (yes, inbound) to what level OS (XP SP3, Vista, 7, etc) is required to get
> multi-monitor support. So, I have a client that uses real desktops + RDP
> connections + vpn (sigh) for remote workers, and I need to get a remote
> worker operational with a multi-monitor setup on their desktop. Any helpful
> insight is appreciated...
Interesting question. UltraVNC over a VPN should support this natively. Cost
is the same as RDP, but IMHO it works better in this case. I have used
UltraVNC inside a LAN control multi-monitor computers from a client with only
one monitor and it works.
No personal experience with RDP on multi-monitors, but the 3rd link on this
search for me:
rdp multiple monitors - Google Search
https://encrypted.google.com/search?q=rdp+multiple+monitors
leads to this article:
Remote Desktop Dual Monitor Support tip
http://blog.tmcnet.com/blog/tom-keating/microsoft/remote-desktop-dual-monitor-support-tip.asp
To have the remote computer's desktop span two monitors, simply type 'mstsc
/span' at a command prompt (i.e. Start, Run, cmd.exe, mstsc /span). This
feature is sometimes called continuous resolution. To toggle in and out of
full-screen spanned mode, press Ctrl+Alt+Break.
The TMCnet article recommends a commercial app for tricky situations (or maybe
if you're using XP):
SplitView | Split your monitor! Multi monitors for Remote Desktop ...
http://www.splitview.com/
Lower down in the same search I found an MSDN article on using multiple
monitors with RDP:
Using Multiple Monitors in Remote Desktop Session - Remote Desktop Services
(Terminal Services) Team Blog - Site Home - MSDN Blogs
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/rds/archive/2009/07/01/using-multiple-monitors-in-remote-desktop-session.aspx
but it seems like this really only works right connecting from Win7 to
Win7/WS2008R2 and you said you're using XP & Vista.
Let us know how you end up getting this working as I could use this too ;-)
A
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