Reporting Services Express Edition using host file redirect to connect to local database.

I had a few reports for an application that needed to be deployed to number of different report servers.  The report servers were Express edition of Reporting Services 2005 with the application database on the same server which helped with the connection limitation of Reporting Services 2005 Express. As the report servers were joined to a domain their computer names have to be unique, the only way application was going to get around this problem was to use host file redirect.  To help with deploying the report I was to going to try to use the host idea, so I added the server name to the localhost entry and tried to run the reports.  Unfortunately this would not work because it looks like the reporting services 2005 express checks the name of the computer, which it gets from the following path HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Control\ComputerName\ActiveComputerName, against the datasource within the connection if they don’t match then raises an error.

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