SelectObject to CompatibleDC failed / Black viewer window

[jan@rusch.homeip.net]

Hi,

I'm getting the following message when I'm trying to connect to an Windows 
2003 Server running VNC Server 4.0 when noone is logged in:

"SelectObject to CompatibleDC failed: The operation completed successfully 
(0)"

I'm using VNC Viewer 4.0 Encoding: AutoSelect  Color: Low

Setting the color to Medium or Full results in a VNC Viewer window of size 
0,0 (Just the title is displayed). When resized the screen is black.

The connection is tunneled via SSH. VNC Server is only listening to local 
connections on port 5900

Running the viewer with somebody logged in on the server is working fine. 
Viewer connects without problems.

Same result on 3 different systems.

Any suggestions or ideas ?

JP