ok forget the do it yourself thing: download this free program:
it will scan your entire network in a LOT of differnet ways, and find all installations, including multiple instances ont he same server.
it will try to connect to each of them IF you put in the credentials.
here's a pair of screenshots from me hitting my network with ~40 servers/instances:
Lowell
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