Windows 2000 Server Terminal Services

[amdnVuser]

I administer a Windows 2000 Server machine at work (headless), and I cannot seem to find an option in the Terminal Services Configurator (or Manager) in the Administrative Tools section in the Control Panel. I'd ideally like to have at least 15-bit color (I'm only allowed 256 colors/8-bit). I'm the only one who ever remotes to the machine (which is once a day, usually), and it's only serving a couple of simple Web sites and as a file server. So is this even an option in Windows 2000 Server Terminal Services? Do I need to log on as with the actual built-in Administrator account? Do I need to actually have the monitor attached (i.e. is this not allowed with an RDP user logged on)?

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

 

[Vodi]

I recently just implemented a Windows 2003 Terminal Server for our company; so this may or may not help as they did improve many of the Terminal Server features from 2000 to 2003.

Our clients are able to connect using 15bit, 16bit, or 24bit. I have setup default RDP connections so that our remote office users connect using 15bit, and any users on the local LAN connect using 16bit.

There are no setting insides Terminal Manager or Terminal Configutor to set the color depth but there are in group policy or local policy. If you are using group policy per active directory you can configure settings there; if you aren't you can configure them locally on the terminal server, by running MMC from the run box, and adding in the group policy snap-in for the local computer.

Under Computer Configuration-->Administrative Templates-->Windows Components-->Terminal Services there are a bunch of settings, like time-out limits, etc.

You can limit the color depth here, make sure it is not set to 8bit.

Make sure under the options for the RDP connection at the client you set that to 16 bit.

Also I would log onto the console of the terminal server and make sure that the display driver is installed properly and that the local display settings on the server are set to at least 16 bit (high color).

Also, and this is just an idea, make sure the monitor driver is not the "default monitor", try updating the driver to the "plug and play monitor" driver.

Hope this helps!!