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Windows 200 taking over WinNT display

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by cenedra

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we have a couple of servers on a monitor switcher and the windows 2000 server "takes over" all the displays on both the actual monitor AND any VNC session into the WinNT box. They have different NICs etc.

Any Ideas?

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by cenedra

Point value changed by question poster. This has now stopped happening, but I'm still interested in any thoughts as to what might have cused it in the first place.

by expertpc

You have two questions here

1. The 2k screen is always on the "monitor switch". It is possible that the default station selection could be a 2k server. What happens when you tell it to go to an NT station?

2. When you VNC into an NT box you are getting a 2k screen.

I would almost suggest you have a policy that is affecting both machines. This policy is specifying the background and color schemes.

Try changing the NT background, logging out and then back in again. see if it reverts back.

by cenedra

As per comment above, the issue stpped as mysteriously as it started, but it doesn't sound like the problem - the two servers are on different domains, the the policies are different - the default selection of the monitor switch is whatever it was at last, and even during the problem, the other two servers on this monitor switch displayed as per usual (they were both win2k server).

by cenedra

Thanks for the link - it was one of the first places we looked, but it is always worth going back to the basics!

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