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What OS is your server running? Do you have an Android phone or an iPhone?
In either case all you likely need to do is expose the port and then access your server by IP on that port with an appropriate client.
In Ollama you can expose the port to your local network by changing the bind address from 127.0.0.1 to 0.0.0.0
Regarding clients: on iOS you can use Enchanted or Apollo to connect to Ollama.
On Android there are likely comparable apps.
Sever is my rig which is running windows. Phone is iPhone.
Exposing the port is something I’ve tried to do in the past with no success! When you say, change the bind address, do I do that in the windows defender firewall in the inbound rules section?
I believe you set env vars on Windows through System Properties -> Advanced -> Environment Variables.