1600x1200 limit in Remote Desktop

I've never noticed this before as I've never had two machines with 1920x1200
monitors.

The server is Vista Business running an nVidia 7600GS at 1920x1200 with a
Dell 2407FPW monitor.
The client is XP Pro running an ATI 9800 Pro at 1920x1200 with a Dell
2405FPW monitor

The settings are 'full screen' in the RDP connect dialog.

When it comes up, it is 1600x1200 with black bars?

How come? Is RDP limited to 1600x1200?

Tom

 

It isn't 4096x2048 is biggest support. This is on RDP 6.0 though, you may
have the older version.

It was limited due to monitor size when it was designed, bandwidth amd video
memory..

Larger resolution does hog the band width.. 10 users at 1600 would slow
everything down, let alone at 4096.

BTW VIsta Business aint a Server...lol

 

For the purposes of RDP, Vista Business is a server.

Regardless, as I stated, both monitors are 1920x1200. They are connected
with gigabit. Both have 256MB of video memory.

So, any suggestions why it is limiting itself to 1600x1200?

 

Check your rdp setting; display/color. Maybe knock it down to say 15 and
see if that helps.
Frank

 

save the rdp settings to a file, and manually edit it with notepad and
change the resolution save again with the correct extension, NOT TXT, and
try it...

This works when you want to make various strange resolutions in the
RDP client window for example 1000x700. As for such high res I have never
tried it. I remember talking about the limitations of the RDP client
in the work_remotely xp newsgroups... but that was with 5.x client.

Please tell me if this helps.. since I am gathering knowledge by helping

 

And the intended purpose is just to get the job done, access remote files,
check on something, not for video conferencing or video editing.

 

It won't do you any good, the limitation is on the RDP client not the
server. Oddly enough this is true in XP too, with the original RDP
client my 1680x1050 monitor shows black bars on the side, but after
upgrading to the latest RDP client, when connecting from XP SP2 to XP
SP2 I can use the full resolution of my monitor.

 

I know where the limitation is... there is a new rdp client 6.0 available..

has anyone tried that are higher res? I can do it later

 

What wasn't clear about what I wrote (pasted below)?

In other words, yes the new RDP client solves the problem.

 

Works for me with connecting to dual monitor machines. I can actually
see whats on both monitors now with the new rdp client. I tried it to
see if it works, but VNC does a much better job and with no fiddling
with the settings. I've decided to stay with VNC.

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VNC has no sound though!

have you found a way to get sound from the remote pc with VNC?

 

Nope, but I don't need sound. I use it for support, and working in a
company with multiple remote branches like I do, it works great. In the
RDP client, I end up turning off all the extras, like sound, printer
connections, wall paper background, etc. because they are just extra
things that take up bandwidth and slow my efficiency. In VNC, don't
need to turn any of that silly extra stuff off, so it just makes my job
faster and easier by default.

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Agreed -- However, last I checked VNC cannot handle the secured desktop,
or login (useful if you need to reboot a machine remotely) under Vista.

Has that changed (or did I have something misconfigured?)

 

Are you running it as a service on the Vista machine?

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