I current have an app which runs on a server and connector to the database (using localhost, JDBC and Mysql driver)

I need to run a class on a separate server that will populate a table with all the file on the server
both computers are networked and iv tried the following - 

//using IP address
 conn = DriverManager.getConnection(jdbc:mysql://192.1.1.1/" + database, 
user, password);
 
//using 2nd IP address (2nd network card)
 conn = DriverManager.getConnection(jdbc:mysql://10.10.10.1/" + database, 
user, password);
 
//using Host name of the server where the database lives
 conn = DriverManager.getConnection(jdbc:mysql://server/" + database, 
user, password);

Any more ideas. otherwise im going to have to ssh into each server using Jsch (ext lib)
and run a command to get all the files, store them into an array, return it, and then format it and store it to the database

Thanks for your help
kurt