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Hi, I am looking into getting started with Prefect Cloud.
Trying to authenticate my machine with
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```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?

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Hi <@U014T42UMSA> - 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:

When you've got one of those, you can log in to Prefect Cloud with this command:
```prefect auth login -t $TOKEN```

Hey <@UN6FTLFAS>, 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'))```

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

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