I don't have a Vista or Longhorn system to test this with, but using it to connect to XP, 2003 or 2000 systems is a pain. The extra layer of security is not yet compatible with the legacy systems (maybe if you installed the update - which is in the form of a KB update - on both machines). The session opens with the requirement to put in your connection credentials - which can not be authenticated by the legacy machines.

Therefore, you must set the client to connect despite the lack of authentication, and then type in your credentials again. I anticipate that with a compatible system, the connection credentials would pass through for logon as well - but that is only a guess. On the plus side, there are more videao options and the ability to select which local drives are available to the session, which is nice. I re-installed the RDP client for 2003 and I don't see myself using it again until I have a predominately Vista environment or XP, 2003 and 2000 are updated to handle the new athentication method. I have this installed on several machines now, and it is working fine. I haven't seen any slowdown's on connecting, at least once I edited up and saved a profile for the connect. Mrugaraju Songs 320kbps there. I'd like to use the authentication, but I think that's got to wait for Vista, or perhaps it's in Server 2003?

Neither of which I'm running. Mjm: Have you gotten the 32bit color to work? This is the feature I'm most interested in, as I have an application I want to serve from one machine, to the machine I'm remoting from, which requires 32bit color, but I can't get it to work.

Apr 24, 2017 Describes the Remote Desktop Connection 7.0 client update for Remote Desktop Services (RDS) in Windows XP. This works for both full Windows Media Player. What versions of Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) are supported by recent versions of the Windows operating system, such as Windows XP and later? This is the list of.

The video card is an older nVidia one (5x series), and I'm wondering if that's part of the problem, or if there is any way to force 32bit. I have updated both machines with v6, and it still drops back to 16 bit. Could it be a problem with the 1600x1280 screen size? I'm at a loss.

The client is very nice (fast and small) but Microsoft has confused me about the versions of the RDP clients. That version is for machine not running windows XP, and it (according to ms site) is the same as the one within the windows XP.

But the client version within windows XP is 5.1.2600.2180, that file has version 6.0.2600.0, And to be even more confused Microsoft has documented that if you want to control windows 2003 server from windows XP client you should update the client to the one that came with windows 2003 (version 5.2.3790.0). Why giving the same program (as Microsoft said) different versions? I don't have a Vista or Longhorn system to test this with, but using it to connect to XP, 2003 or 2000 systems is a pain.