Hi I am looking into getting started with Prefect Cloud Tryi

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Hi I am looking into getting started with Prefect Cloud Trying to authenticate my machine with ` ```prefect cloud login token $TOKEN``` results in ``` WinError 10061 No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it ``` More precisely other prefect auth commands yield the same result Did I miss anything in the docs in order to establish a connection to prefect cloud

nicholas · Answer

Hi < Paul> are you using a Personal Access Token a `USER` scoped token You can create one of those from the User > Personal Access Tokens page in the UI

nicholas · Answer

When you ve got one of those you can log in to Prefect Cloud with this command ```prefect auth login t $TOKEN```

Paul · Answer

Hey < nicholas> yeah I generated a Token via the UI and parsed it into the command The full error ouput is ```requests exceptions ConnectionError HTTPConnectionPool host= localhost port=4200 Max retries exceeded with url graphql alpha Caused by NewConnectionError lt urllib3 connection HTTPConnection object at 0x0000027B93457948 gt Failed to establish a new connection WinError 10061 No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it ```

nicholas · Answer

Ah got it thanks for that Run `prefect backend cloud` and then try that again

Paul · Answer

Ah I see Need to switch the backend type worked Thanks for the quick help

nicholas · Answer

No problem smile