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Michael Christie
Hi all,
(I'll apologise now if I get some terminology wrong - this isn't an area
I've had to worry about before.)
I'm trying to remotely connect to the console of a Vista box so that I can
see and control the screen that is currently being displayed on the box.
The box is being used as a media center connected to a TV through a home
made VGA->SCART adapter and the reasons for wanting to connect to the
console relate to this. For one, I need to be able to tweak settings in
Powerstrip (a graphics card tweaker) in order to get the graphics card
output right for the TV.
So far, I haven't found a way to do this. My first plan was to use VNC (as
I did in MCE 2005) but I can't find any VNC server that works in Vista.
With some servers (eg. RealVNC), I get booted out as soon as I login and
there's an error in event viewer stating the server can't connect to the
console as access is denied. With others (eg. TightVNC) I can login but I
just get a blank screen with a cursor. From doing some research, it seems
that this is a common and accepted problem.
Using Remote Desktop (from an XP box), the screen gets locked and I get a
new session. Crucially, I can't make any changes in Powerstrip within the
session has different graphics properties compared to a local session. I
have seen some switches for RDP that appear to allow this in 2003 server but
they don't seem to work in Vista.
I think this can be done with Remote Assistance but I can't see how I can
initiate a connection without having to authorise each connection on the
Vista box, which isn't very convenient (particularly when there's no
keyboard/mouse attached.)
Is there a way to do this at present? For VNC (or similar software), is
there a version that will work with Vista? For RDP, is there a way to
connect to the local console of the box?
Cheers,
Mike
(I'll apologise now if I get some terminology wrong - this isn't an area
I've had to worry about before.)
I'm trying to remotely connect to the console of a Vista box so that I can
see and control the screen that is currently being displayed on the box.
The box is being used as a media center connected to a TV through a home
made VGA->SCART adapter and the reasons for wanting to connect to the
console relate to this. For one, I need to be able to tweak settings in
Powerstrip (a graphics card tweaker) in order to get the graphics card
output right for the TV.
So far, I haven't found a way to do this. My first plan was to use VNC (as
I did in MCE 2005) but I can't find any VNC server that works in Vista.
With some servers (eg. RealVNC), I get booted out as soon as I login and
there's an error in event viewer stating the server can't connect to the
console as access is denied. With others (eg. TightVNC) I can login but I
just get a blank screen with a cursor. From doing some research, it seems
that this is a common and accepted problem.
Using Remote Desktop (from an XP box), the screen gets locked and I get a
new session. Crucially, I can't make any changes in Powerstrip within the
session has different graphics properties compared to a local session. I
have seen some switches for RDP that appear to allow this in 2003 server but
they don't seem to work in Vista.
I think this can be done with Remote Assistance but I can't see how I can
initiate a connection without having to authorise each connection on the
Vista box, which isn't very convenient (particularly when there's no
keyboard/mouse attached.)
Is there a way to do this at present? For VNC (or similar software), is
there a version that will work with Vista? For RDP, is there a way to
connect to the local console of the box?
Cheers,
Mike