Thank you Andy, The problem was as you suspected, the "http://"; prefixes. The odd thing is that I used to use the one param constructor with the solr node URL list (like: CloudSolrClient.Builder(solrServerURLLList).build();). I could not get that one to work without the "http://"; prefix.
Anyway between removing the prefix and using chrootOption = Optional.empty(), my problems are solved. You have literally made my day! Tim -- Sent from: http://lucene.472066.n3.nabble.com/Solr-User-f472068.html
