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When Trying to use Databricks Connect to Free Edition I am getting "Failed to Read Databricks table:

ShawnRR — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 18:45:10 GMT

When Trying to use Databricks Connect to Free Edition I am getting "Failed to Read Databricks table: PERMISSION_DENIED: PERMISSION_DENIED: Cannot access Spark Connect. (requietsId=.....

So I have not done anything to my instance aside from getting a token. Is it possible to use Databricks Connect to access my table? If so what else do I need to do?

Re: When Trying to use Databricks Connect to Free Edition I am getting "Failed to Read Databric

ShawnRR — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 19:02:11 GMT

If it helps my AI says the following.... Note that I am the only user of this free account. I have not done anything explicit with permissions. I created the table I am trying to access and put data in it through the UI. I can see when I look at the workspace in the gui the following... Am I allowed to use database connect 18.0.0

_workspace_users_workspace_747##########771 <=== took out numbers

USE CATALOG

workspace

he project is now reaching Databricks Connect correctly, but the current blocker is workspace permissions, not code or versioning.

Current state:

dependency aligned to Databricks Connect 18.0.0
cluster ID accepted
connection reaches Spark Connect endpoint
failure is now:
PERMISSION_DENIED: Cannot access Spark Connect
Meaning:

your token/user can authenticate
but this workspace/user is not allowed to use Spark Connect on that compute
What must be fixed in Databricks:

ensure the cluster supports Databricks Connect / Spark Connect
ensure your user has permission to attach/use that cluster
ensure Spark Connect is enabled/allowed for the workspace and compute policy

Re: When Trying to use Databricks Connect to Free Edition I am getting "Failed to Read Databric

emma_s — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 10:22:16 GMT

Hi, I think this is the way you're configuring Databricks Connect. This error often happens when you're trying to configure Databricks Connect for a classic cluster rather than serverless. If you do the following, it should fix the issue.

1. Update your ~/.databrickscfg — remove any cluster_id and add serverless_compute_id = auto:

[DEFAULT] host = https://<your-workspace>.cloud.databricks.com auth_type = databricks-cli serverless_compute_id = auto

Authenticate with:

databricks auth login --host https://<your-workspace>.cloud.databricks.com

2 In your Python code, build your session don't try and pass a cluster id.

from databricks.connect import DatabricksSession spark = DatabricksSession.builder.getOrCreate() df = spark.read.table("workspace.default.<your_table>") df.show(5)

I hope this helps.

Thanks,

Emma