Hello Matan, Did it work?If not, add these properties in your hbase-site.xml file and see if it works for you.
<property> <name>hbase.zookeeper.quorum</name> <value>ZH-HOST_MACHINE</value> </property> <property> <name>hbase.zookeeper.property.clientPort</name> <value>2181</value> </property> <property> <name>hbase.zookeeper.property.dataDir</name> <value>path_to_your_datadir</value> </property> HTH Regards, Mohammad Tariq On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 8:58 PM, Nicolas Liochon <nkey...@gmail.com> wrote: > Yes, it's not useful to set the master address in the client. I suppose it > was different a long time ago, hence there are some traces on different > documentation. > The master references itself in ZooKeeper. So if the master finds itself to > be "locahost", ZooKeeper will contain "locahost", and the clients on > another computer won't be able to connect. The issue lies on the master > host, not the client. > > On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 4:06 PM, matan <ma...@cloudaloe.org> wrote: > > > also don't really understand why it has to be set in the client, as > > according to the flow you describe, the client is getting all it needs to > > know from zookeeper (?). > > >