jdbc:mysql problem

Hi, anyone can tell me, how can different clients on a LAN network can connect to server database? In below simple code, "localhost:3306" is server ip or not? wat url client must be insert for connection to server database?

staticprivate String url ="jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/BOOK";

try

{

Class.forName("com.mysql.jdbc.Driver");

conn = DriverManager.getConnection(url,"root","123456");

}

[686 byte] By [jiong_ronga] at [2007-11-27 10:06:41]