title: hadoop api configuration on the client machine
body: <p><em>ultra-noob</em>. I have a server machine with cdh3u1 pseudo-distrib, and a client machine with a java application using the cdh3u1 API. </p>
  
  <p>How do I configure the client to talk to the server? I've been googling for hours and couldn't find where is the "client configuration" file. The "hdfs-default", "core-default" and "mapred-default" and their "-site" counterparts all look like server (namenode and datanode) config to me. </p>
  
  <p>Is it just "multipurpose client server" config and I should cherry-pick the attributes in these files that are appropriate to the client? which are they? probably missing something big here...</p>
  
  <p>Thanks, Ido</p>