Thanks to everyone who took tike to reply. AT this point thsi looks like a no-go in as far as doing it without imnpelemnting some kind fo work-around that may not work for all clients/scenarios.

Luckily the bulk (about %90 or more) of the users connecting to the BD do so thru an IE managed web based application which stores the Server anem & DB requiring that the user need only provide tehir login info so we don;t have to worry about tehir getting the right server name + alias. Only our outside users who come in outside this web based app will need to specify the server name. For those we can get a client side alias setup for them to use if need be,

Thanks again