RDP to Small Business Server 2003

[itmt]

Hi,

I have forwarded port 3389 from the firewall to the LAN IP of my server and can now RDP in from anywhere.

HOWEVER, it is a Dell server (!) - and the Dell splash screen loads. It takes ages to load all the graphics until the logon is available - after login it runs nice and fast.

My question is, does anyone know how to disable this splash screen for RDP sessions?

Cheers!

 

[slaing]

By 'Splash Screen' do you mean the Desktop Background image ? I've had that problem too - the bmp is over 1.5 Mb.

Click the 'options' button on the Remote Desktop Connection logon screen and go to the 'Experience' tab

There's a checkbox there which specifies whether to load the desktop background or not, and some other options to help performance

HTH

Steve

 

[itmt]

Thanks - unfortunately I had already unchecked that box (Desktop Background)

The problem is, I have set the background on the remote machine to 'none' = plain blue. But the 'splash screen' still loads on initial connection up to the point of login. Once logged in, the background is plain blue as expected.
Somehow, Dell (the complete idiots) in their wisdom have hard coded it in.

And before anyone says it, we didn't buy the Dell box - we just got the contract!!!

Any other ideas?

 

[slaing]

You could go to windows\system32 and rename/get rid of dellwall.bmp

That works for us - nice plain grey background to the logon screen now.

 

[LWComputingMVP]

This is for XP but it should work on 2003 as 2003 is, in many respects, XP Server:

http://www.updatexp.com/tip12.html

You can also just find the file and rename it, then put a different file in it's place that's much smaller.

 

[itmt]

Thanks!

Renamed dellwall.bmp to whatajoke.bmp and now have a dull but FAST grey background!

Thanks again!

 

[58sniper]

But, if you didn't go through and edit the registry as mentioned above, the server is still looking for that file.

http://www.updatexp.com/tip12.html

solves the problem correctly.

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[markdmac]

Delete the value in the registry for:

HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Control Panel\Desktop\Wallpaper

Please be aware that there is an SBS 2003 forum that may yield better responses for you in the future: forum1584

I hope you find this post helpful.

Regards,

Mark

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