serversocket listen connection

Hi,

I have been building my whole client/server program on one machine using localhost for the client.

However i have now tried to connect the client to the server across a local network.

i am not sure how i set my server to listen on my default connection.
this is my server code

Code:

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public class MultiServer implements Runnable {

    public static final int PORT = 8080;        //set the port
    ServerSocket server = null;      //create a server socket variable
    Socket socket = null;      //create a new socket variable

    public void startConnection() throws IOException {
   
        server = new ServerSocket(PORT);//creates a new server socket called server
        JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, "server started"); //displays a message that the server has been started
        Thread thisThread = new Thread(this); //creates a new thread
        thisThread.start();  //starts the new thread
    }

    public void run() {
        try {
            while (true) {
                socket = server.accept(); //listens and accepts clients
                try {
                    new ServerThread(socket, false);  //start serverThread
                    } catch (IOException ex) //catch IOexception if serverthread has errors
                {
                    System.err.println("IOException: " + ex);  //display error
                    socket.close();  //close connection
                    }
            }
        } catch (IOException ex) {  //catch IOexception if client cant connec to server
            Logger.getLogger(MultiServer.class.getName()).log(Level.SEVERE, null, ex);
        } finally {
            try {
                server.close();      //close server
            } catch (IOException ex) {
                Logger.getLogger(MultiServer.class.getName()).log(Level.SEVERE, null, ex);
            }
        }
    }
}
// end of MultiServer class

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By default, your ServerSocket will listen on ALL IP addresses defined for the host. You can specify an address using the three parameter constructor or by using bind() method.