We have a user who primarialy works out of another office, but visits here once every week or two. I finally set her up with a machine from our pile of extras (a Dell Optiplex 745 â not bad for normal office work), and got the machine all configured up to her specs.
Beacuse of a couple of factors, I figured it would be worth a try to get her to use Remote Desktop from the machine at this office to connect to the one at her primary office. She has a fairly complicated setup, we have a good enough T-1, and she is a user who likes things the same. I also didnât want to confuse the user by making her use dual machines and having to maintain two setups for her.
Here was the hitch that I found: her primary office has two wide-screen monitors, and her remote office machine has dual screens, but they are square ones that only do 1280×1024. Standard RDP from XP doesnât automatically work for dual monitors, and in setting up RDP for her, one screen would be her âlocalâ machine, and the other screen would be the âremoteâ machine (at her primary office.) This could work, but my fear is that she will start saving files or doing things on the local machine, thinking it is the remote one, and vice versa.
The only quick solution I could find, which works mostly, is to use the /span option when invoking the RDP Client (mstsc.exe), which then spans the remote desktop across both screens on the local PC. This would work just fine if both of her screen setups were the same resolution, but the ones at the primary office are widescreen and at a different resolution, so you need to resize windows once RDP is running.
I think that this solution is a good one for now, and will at least eliminate the dual-PC work that I feared. I just hope that the end user is satisfied with the solution.
Anyone have anything better?