Dual monitors with Remote Desktop?

[Eric]

I have dual dual monitors. I would like to connect to another computer using
Remote Desktop.

Can I do that?

Thanks.

 

[Bob I]

The number of monitors you have is immaterial.

 

[Big_Al]

I have dual dual monitors. I would like to connect to another computer using
Remote Desktop.

Can I do that?

Thanks.

If *you* have dual monitors, its okay.
If the *other end* has dual monitors, then it is a problem. Or let's
say, that over the years, the few clients we had to RDP with, and they
had dual monitors, we had to get them to disable one before connecting.
We never took much time to diagnose it if possible.

 

[Eric]

I'm not sure I understand. What I want to do is to connect to the remote
machine and have both my monitors active on the remote machine.

I have both monitors active on my local machine. I connect to the remote
machine and I'm using the Remote Desktop window. When I Maximize the Remote
Desktop window, I see it on only one monitor. When I Restore it and try to
resize it to span the two monitors, it expands slightly into the second
monitor and then won't expand any more. (In other words, the Remote Desktop
window covers one monitor completely, but only about 20% of the screen for
the second monitor.)

What I want is to have two full monitors active on the remote machine.

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Thanks.

 

[Patrick Keenan]

I have dual dual monitors. I would like to connect to another computer
using
Remote Desktop.

Can I do that?

Thanks.

It depends on the OS versions involved, the monitors have nothing to do with
it. If both OS's support remote desktop connections, yes you can do this.

HTH
-pk

 

[Eric]

The remote PC does have two monitors. I've had no problem connecting with a
single monitor on my local PC.

Now I've added a second monitor on my local PC, and I'd like to be able to
use my remote PC with both monitors. As described in my response to Bob I, I
can expand the Remote Desktop window slightly onto my second monitor, but not
far.

Is there any way to use the local dual monitor with Remote Desktop so that
it feels like a normal dual monitor setup, as if I'm sitting in front of the
remote machine with two monitors?

Thanks.

 

[Big_Al]

The remote PC does have two monitors. I've had no problem connecting with a
single monitor on my local PC.

Now I've added a second monitor on my local PC, and I'd like to be able to
use my remote PC with both monitors. As described in my response to Bob I, I
can expand the Remote Desktop window slightly onto my second monitor, but not
far.

Is there any way to use the local dual monitor with Remote Desktop so that
it feels like a normal dual monitor setup, as if I'm sitting in front of the
remote machine with two monitors?

Thanks.

I guess that was my point. We never seemed to be able to figure it out.
All the other comments are probably right.
I'm open to suggestions, I'd love to be able to run dual monitors on one
end and dual on the other end and get logic screens to work.
I'll monitor this thread, maybe someone has done it. There is a world
of knowledge out there.

 

[Eric]

As indicated in my other posts, what I want is not merely to *connect* to the
remote machine using dual monitors. I know that I can do that.

What I want to do is to actually *use* both of my local monitors when I'm
connecting to the remote machine using Remote Desktop.

 

[Eric]

Yeah, it does seem like a good guess. That occurred to me too.

The question remains: what do we do with this insight?

Are there settings or options I can select to make it work? The local PC is
my home PC and the remote PC is my PC at work, so I do have physical access
to the remote PC if there's any setup that's needed on that end.

 

[R. McCarty]

Remote Desktop ( mstsc.exe ) can be invoked with video parameter
/Span /Height and /Width

Invoke the mstsc command from a command prompt window with the
/? to get a listing of qualifiers.

 

[3c273]

www.ultravnc.com (free) works with both of my dual monitor setups.
Louis

 

[(PeteCresswell)]

Per Big_Al:

If *you* have dual monitors, its okay.
If the *other end* has dual monitors, then it is a problem. Or let's
say, that over the years, the few clients we had to RDP with, and they
had dual monitors, we had to get them to disable one before connecting.
We never took much time to diagnose it if possible.

Maybe MS fixed something since then.

I've got three monitors at my client site PC (two on a graphics
card, and one on the PC's built-in graphics processor).

When I RemoteDesktop to it from home (single monitor) everything
seems to come up - even the stuff that's open on the two
additional monitors - on my single home screen as if the PC at
the client site had a single monitor.

I *might* be lying about the native screen... but I'm 99
44/100ths percent sure about the two screens on the graphics
card.