It seems odd to me that you still have to be connected to a share with SQL. I was only using HKCU as a example. The information would be better server in HKLM.
No matter how the remote computer finds out about the port number the remote computer should have all this information local on the machine. It should not have to look on a share.
That is the beauty of SQL and ODBC. The user should not have to care about a share only ports on the server.
Thanks for the comment.
