Screen Resolution in Terminal Services

[Tim Brown]

We're using HP t5300 thin-clients (running Win XP CE) to
connect to Windows Server 2003 Terminal Server.

We have a problem in that the thin-client can display at
1024x768, but only seems to connect to the Terminal Server
at 800x600.

We know a 1024x768 connection can be made, since one of
the clients connects at that resolution - but we don't
know how!

We want to be able to choose between 1024x768 and
800x600. Does anyone know how/where to set this?

Thanks.

 

[Matthew Harris [MVP]]

That setting should be configurable through the client's
RDP settings. Take a look there.

-M

 

[Guest]

On a CE.Net Thin Client this is usually set via the client's control panel (on the Terminal, not the Server), or when you first configure the terminal. There isn't a way to change this setting once you're logged onto the Terminal Server. You'd need to logoff, use whatever keystroke-combination gets you to the thin client's control panel (Alt+F4 for older Compaq T20/T30 Thin Clients, but probably different on newer models that aren't OEM from Wyse), go to the display settings, set your color depth & resolution.

This isn't something that the end-user can change easily, although most thin clients allow you to amke certain control panel applets available to end users, w/o giving them access to network/security settings.

Patrick Rouse
Microsoft MVP - Terminal Server
www.workthin.com