Re: Blank screen saver causing traffic!!

From: Laura A. Robinson [MVP] (geekwench_at_snippit.hotmail.com)
Date: 02/18/04 

Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2004 15:44:06 -0500

In article <MPG.1a9ded79e583d58a989683@news.microsoft.com>,
spamfree.scott@ncs.co.nz says...
> >> I have a client with quite a lite wan which they have to pay for
> >> by the MB. When the blank screen saver kicks in in a Windows 2003 rdp
> >> session there is constant traffic being being sent. Why on earth is
> >> this? Obviously we could disable the screen saver, but they want
> screens
> >> automatically locked for security reasons.
> >
> > Are the clients configured to cache bitmaps to disk?
> >
> > Laura
> >
>
> Yes they are. It's weird...I see it happens on every Win2k3 server I
> have accessed...but not on Win2k servers. God knows why, the screensaver
> is just a non-changing black. It's not like it's a small amount of
> intermittent traffic - it's a constant stream.
>
Have you implemented any group policy TS settings?

Laura

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