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Is it possible to set the VNC display resolution that is independent of the hardware resolution when you are using OS X 10.5 Screen Sharing?

I have a macbook and a windows box with 3 monitors. I'd like to use the 3 monitors on my windows box to do work on my macbook when I'm at my desk. When I VNC into the macbook I only get the resolution of the hardware screen (1280x800). Instead I'd like to use two of my monitors on my windows box to display a large VNC screen from my macbook. The scaling options in the VNC clients (TightVNC and Ultr@VNC) do not adjust the actual resolution of the display they just do image processing.

My ultimate goal is for someway to have a virtual display on my windows box that is from my macbook that is independent of the macbook's hardware screen.

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haven't tried it, but coderebel's irapp might be what you want.

according to the feature list it has support for "multi-monitor displays (you can assign Mac and PC to different monitors, drag Mac applications across two monitors, and stretch applications across multiple monitors)"

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Have you looked at sreenrecycler ?

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I looked at ScreenRecyler and it seems that it creates a virtual monitor on the mac and then allows the remote computer to VNC and display that screen. Effectively giving the mac a second monitor that is attached to another computer. Unfortunately, the VNC server created doesn't allow the remote computer to provide any keyboard or mouse input. It's like MaxiVista for the mac pretty much. – Qberticus Dec 14 '09 at 4:58
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