Thanks Jim, It works when using it as arguments to cassandra-cli and using -port... is this a bug?? E:\Cassandra\Cass07b3\apache-cassandra-0.7.0-beta3>bin\cassandra-cli.bat -host 192.168.1.11 -port 9160 Starting Cassandra Client Connected to: "Test Cluster" on 192.168.1.11/9160 Welcome to cassandra CLI. Type 'help' or '?' for help. Type 'quit' or 'exit' to quit. Alaa On 11/9/2010 8:30 AM, Jim Ancona wrote: > On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 8:31 PM, Alaa Zubaidi wrote: >> Hi, >> Failing to connect to cassandra client: on windows >> >> [default@unknown] connect localhost/9160 >> Exception connecting to localhost/9160. Reason: Connection refused: connect. >> >> [default@unknown] connect xxx.xxx.x.xx/9160 >> Syntax error at position 0: no viable alternative at input 'connect' >> >> [default@unknown] connect xxx.xxx.x.xx\9160 >> Syntax error at position 20: no viable alternative at character '\' >> >> Any idea how to connect? > In the first example, are you sure Cassandra was running on port 9160 > on your local machine? > > You could also try > cassandra-cli -host hostname -port port > e.g. > cassandra-cli -host localhost -port 9160 > > Jim > > -- Alaa Zubaidi PDF Solutions, Inc. 333 West San Carlos Street, Suite 700 San Jose, CA 95110 USA Tel: 408-283-5639 (or 408-280-7900 x5639) fax: 408-938-6479 email: alaa.zubaidi@pdf.com