You are trying to connect through cassandra-cli? Does the cassandra log indicate it started correctly? Can you hit port 9160 (telnet localhost 9160)?
On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 2:34 PM, Rajkumar Gupta <rajkumar....@gmail.com>wrote: > > Hi there, > > I am trying to install Cassandra on windows.. I have downloaded the files > and when I try to connect to the cassandra through command prompt I get an > error: > > *java.net connection exception: Connection refused > > *I have set the environment variables properly & pointed to my JDK > installation. > > -- > > ___________________________________ > > Rajkumar Gupta > Dihing 173, > Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati > India >