Minor issue w/ Terminal Services and my laptop Touchpad

When I connect to another host through Terminal Services in WinXP, I can't scroll down with the touchpad. The side edge of it won't respond like it does when I use Firefox on my laptop, but when I connect through terminal services and load up Firefox remotely, the scrolling function won't work, instead my mouse cursor just moves up and down when it should be scrolling, when I slide my finger on the side edge of the touchpad. Anyone know what I mean? I've tried googling and searching here but no results.

I know what you mean but don't have a solution... Sounds like a driver issue... I know for printers and stuff you have to have the printer loaded remotely... not sure about touchpads though.

I know what you mean. No way for that to work. I have Backward/Forwards buttons on my IBM laptop but I cannot use them either in terminal services. TS only knows how to use basic hardware

You could try to load the software on the server, but good luck. I have not found anything that worked yet so...

Hmm, both ends are laptops, I'm basically using my laptop to connect to my other laptop at home. Although, they are different brands but I think they are both synaptecs (sp?) touchpads. Ok I'll look for answers deeper into google.

MooCow said:

Hmm, both ends are laptops, I'm basically using my laptop to connect to my other laptop at home. Although, they are different brands but I think they are both synaptecs (sp?) touchpads. Ok I'll look for answers deeper into google.

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then I doubt it's possible. Like I said I couldn't figure out a way to use my IBM laptop's Back/Forward button in terminal services even after installing every kind of driver I could find. Just not a supported feature I guess?

What version of the Remote Desktop Client are you using? Since you have XP you most likely are on 5.2

At work we had a problem with terminal services with Dell Latitude D820s. The accountants had USB ten-key pads that worked fine in Windows XP but would not work in terminal services. On other Dell laptops the same 10-key pads would work fine.

Although I personally do not like the new RDP 6.0 client that Microsoft released several months ago I did find that it fixed the problem on those laptops with the 10-key pads. Which made my number crunchers really happy.

Well I have been using the new version of the Terminal Services Client but I've noticed quite an inconvenient issue, I don't know if its a bug or an option thats a part of its functionality. Whenever I connect to my own internal server, lets say ip 192.168.0.69, the login and password screen comes up so I can provide a password. BUT, the login name always reads "[email protected]". The @192.168.0.69 is always appended to the end of my username. Of course it won't go through, I have to manually delete the end of that. Why is it doing this??