title: bootstrapping a windows client in chef
body: <p>I am trying to bootstrap my client (Windows machine) to the hosted chef server (from opscode).</p>
  
  <ol>
  <li><p>I have successfully installed knife in my client machine.</p></li>
  <li><p>I am in chef-repo in users/ folder and have started the execution.</p></li>
  <li><p>I am not able to bootstrap with the chef-server.</p></li>
  </ol>
  
  <p>Basically, <code>chef-repo&gt;knife bootstrap ipaddress -x user -P password</code> is not working for me.</p>
  
  <p>I am getting an error:</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p><strong>ERROR: network error. No connection could be made as the target machine actively refused it.</strong></p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>In the example, people have used opscode as both username and password. So what I should be using it ideally?</p>
  
  <p>And the <code>ipaddress</code> is the client IP address right? The machine from where I want to upload the cookbooks to the server?</p>