title: TableNotFoundException when connecting to a remote HBase instance
body: <p>I'm trying to connect to a remote hbase-0.94.8 installed on a ubuntu vm. I'm having a <code>TableNotFoundException</code> and this is my Java code:</p>
  
  <pre><code>Configuration config = HBaseConfiguration.create();
  config.set("hbase.zookeeper.quorum", "192.168.56.101");
  HTableInterface usersTable = new HTable(config, "users");
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Here is the full exception trace:</p>
  
  <pre><code>14/06/24 15:59:48 WARN client.HConnectionManager$HConnectionImplementation: Encountered problems when prefetch META table: 
  org.apache.hadoop.hbase.TableNotFoundException: Cannot find row in .META. for table: users, row=users,,99999999999999
  at org.apache.hadoop.hbase.client.MetaScanner.metaScan(MetaScanner.java:158)
  at org.apache.hadoop.hbase.client.MetaScanner.access$000(MetaScanner.java:52)
  at org.apache.hadoop.hbase.client.MetaScanner$1.connect(MetaScanner.java:130)
  at org.apache.hadoop.hbase.client.MetaScanner$1.connect(MetaScanner.java:127)
  at org.apache.hadoop.hbase.client.HConnectionManager.execute(HConnectionManager.java:360)
  at org.apache.hadoop.hbase.client.MetaScanner.metaScan(MetaScanner.java:127)
  at org.apache.hadoop.hbase.client.MetaScanner.metaScan(MetaScanner.java:103)
  at org.apache.hadoop.hbase.client.HConnectionManager$HConnectionImplementation.prefetchRegionCache(HConnectionManager.java:876)
  at org.apache.hadoop.hbase.client.HConnectionManager$HConnectionImplementation.locateRegionInMeta(HConnectionManager.java:930)
  at org.apache.hadoop.hbase.client.HConnectionManager$HConnectionImplementation.locateRegion(HConnectionManager.java:818)
  at org.apache.hadoop.hbase.client.HConnectionManager$HConnectionImplementation.locateRegion(HConnectionManager.java:782)
  at org.apache.hadoop.hbase.client.HTable.finishSetup(HTable.java:249)
  at org.apache.hadoop.hbase.client.HTable.&lt;init&gt;(HTable.java:213)
  at org.apache.hadoop.hbase.client.HTable.&lt;init&gt;(HTable.java:171)
  at com.heavenize.samples.hbase.UsersTool.main(UsersTool.java:37)
  Exception in thread "main" org.apache.hadoop.hbase.TableNotFoundException: users
  at org.apache.hadoop.hbase.client.HConnectionManager$HConnectionImplementation.locateRegionInMeta(HConnectionManager.java:952)
  at org.apache.hadoop.hbase.client.HConnectionManager$HConnectionImplementation.locateRegion(HConnectionManager.java:818)
  at org.apache.hadoop.hbase.client.HConnectionManager$HConnectionImplementation.locateRegion(HConnectionManager.java:782)
  at org.apache.hadoop.hbase.client.HTable.finishSetup(HTable.java:249)
  at org.apache.hadoop.hbase.client.HTable.&lt;init&gt;(HTable.java:213)
  at org.apache.hadoop.hbase.client.HTable.&lt;init&gt;(HTable.java:171)
  at com.heavenize.samples.hbase.UsersTool.main(UsersTool.java:37)
  </code></pre>