Can Smart Display be hacked to work with Terminal Services?

[Keith Brown]

I understand that the Smart Display devices are designed to work only
with Windows XP Pro because of certain extensions to the Remote
Desktop Protocol included in XP Pro but not in any of the Windows
Server products.

I have a thin client terminal, used to connect to a remote Windows
2000 Server running Terminal Services. I would like to be able to
walk around with a Smart Display and not be tied to the wired
terminal. Any thoughts on whether this is possible, apart from
replacing the thin client terminal with a full-blown PC running
Windows XP Pro?

Thanks!

 

[Bill Sanderson]

Not likely. Theres microsoft.public.windows.smartdisplay to ask in.

You could walk around with a SmartDisplay talking to an XP Pro host, which
was full-screen RDP'd into your Windows 2000 server.

You could also walk around with a Tablet PC--but that was the option you
told us not to specify.

 

[Jeffrey Randow (MVP)]

Not with anything running less than RDP 5.1... Note though, that you
can connect to an XP Pro or Win2K3 machine, then RD to a Windows 2000
machine.... This involves an extra machine, but accomplishes similar
functionality.

Jeffrey Randow (Windows MVP - Networking & Smart Display)
(e-mail address removed)

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be answered depending on time availability....

Remote Networking Technology Wiki -
http://www.remotenetworktechnology.com
Smart Display Support - http://www.smartdisplays.net
Windows XP Expert Zone - http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone

 

[Tom]

If you have the ViewSonis SD, there are hacks which allow you to break out
of the MIRA Shell and have what is essentially a giant WinCE PDA.

This is a starting point:
http://www.aibohack.com/panel/install.htm

 

[Guest]

If the smart display device is capable of browsing the web and has a JVM you could install an Ultra VNC server into a TS session and connect to it using http. That way you could have TS within your browser.