I cannot solve this exception, I’ve read the hadoop docu and all related stackoverflow questions that I could find. My fileSystem.mkdirs(***) throws: I am including the following dependencies in my app (via maven pom.xml), all in version 2.6.0-cdh5.13.0: hadoop-common, hadoop-hdfs, hadoop-client, hadoop-minicluster My filesystem variable is a valid (hadoop-common) FileSystem (org.apache.hadoop.fs.FileSystem). I downloaded the hadoop files from https://github.com/steveloughran/winutils/tree/master/hadoop-2.6.0/bin. I stored