Thanks for the reply JGGTZ. I have already tried your proposed solution various times, but could not get anything to work properly and suspected it relates to the ServerName.
After seeing your reply I decided to give it another bash and got it working fine. All it demanded was replacing the actual server name with the IP and port being used to connect to the database: CRTLI.ConnectionInfo.ServerName = " 190.190.200.100,1433". Odd that I tried the same method previously with no success, but now it works and I’m chaffed!
Thanks a stack!