Re: desktop picture with terminal services?

Giuseppe Nacci wrote: 
Peter Row wrote:

Hi,

Just got 2 brand new servers that came with Win2K3 Server Standard
Edition. Both have terminal services set-up on them and this works
fine as other machines on the network can remote desktop to them.

My problem is that I like to set a desktop background picture so that
it is easy to remember which machine your on (sometimes I am remoting
to several machines at once).

However from my XP Pro SP2 machine even when remoting to the server
and logging in as the domain admin the display properties for setting
the background picture are ghosted, all I can change is the
background colour. I used regedit to change the default wallpaper but
it only appears on the login dialog, once logged in the wallpaper
disappears.
Before any one asks I have (a) Set my remote desktop client to allow
desktop background  and (b) in Terminal Services Configuration on the
server the Active Desktop setting is enabled.

In addition if I physically go to the server and login then I do get
the background as set in the registry.

Any ideas as to how I can get the desktop wallpaper to display when
remote desktop'ing into the server (or even better set the wallpaper
so that it is the same no matter which user you login as).

Regards,
Peter


You can find the option in tab Experience on Remote Desktop Connection. I'm thinking about it by heart....

be aware though that having the background will affect the performance of your desktop session. Make sure you check the box that will cache bitmaps.

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Daniel
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