It's fixed now. Here's my windows.yml file contents ansible_ssh_user: ansible ansivle_ssh_pass: ansible123 ansible_ssh_port: 5986 ansible_connection: winrm
It seems that the 3rd line of my windows.yml file "ansible_ssh_port: 5986" was not doing it's job because I appended my computer name with the port number and everything worked fine. So I've deleted the 3rd line of my windows.yml file and now my host file is [windows] ComputerName:5986 On Friday, April 10, 2015 at 7:58:20 AM UTC-5, J Hawkesworth wrote: > > Your vars look correct but the logging output from ansible-playbook when > you run it appeared to show it was attempting to use SSH to connect, which > as you say isn't going to work against a windows machine. > > Is www.example.com actually one of the machines listed as belonging to > your [windows] group? If not the default connection, ssh, will be > attempted. > > The user does not need to be logged in on the windows machine, but the > user has to exist (and ansible needs to know the correct password of > course). > > Since you are running ansible 1.8 then you will need to connect as a local > user on the windows machine. If you are able to use 1.9 then you can > connect using a domain user if you have pykerberos installed. You will > need to specify the username like > [email protected] <javascript:> in order to use a domain user. > > Hope that helps, > > Jon > > On Thursday, April 9, 2015 at 6:12:49 PM UTC+1, skinnedknuckles wrote: >> >> Actually I'm trying to connect to a Windows machine so I can't use ssh. >> In that case are the contents of my windows.yml file correct for connecting >> to a windows machine. I've tried using port 5986 and 5985 (using a cert >> and ssl) but neither works. >> >> windows.yml file contains... >> >> >> ansible_ssh_user: ansmgr >> >> ansivle_ssh_pass: ansible123 >> >> ansible_ssh_port: 5986 >> >> ansible_connection: winrm >> >> >> Also someone told me that the user and password in the windows.yml file >> must match the username and password of the active account (logged in) on >> the windows machine. Is this correct? >> >> >> I was also told that the active account must be a local account not a >> domain account. Is this correct? >> >> On Tue, Apr 7, 2015 at 8:29 AM, J Hawkesworth <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> It looks like you are making an ssh connection so it appears your vars >>> are not getting picked up. >>> Since your config has a user 'ansible' but the logging output shows you >>> are connecting as 'ansmgr', and clearly connecting to port 22 not 5986 >>> I am wondering if you are picking up the inventory / hosts file that you >>> expect? >>> >>> Jon >>> >>> On Thursday, April 2, 2015 at 9:22:58 PM UTC+1, skinnedknuckles wrote: >>>> >>>> Thanks for the tip. In my case it would be simpler to keep everything >>>> in the hosts file. >>>> >>>> But actually I did have the ansible_ssh vars in the >>>> etc/ansible/group_vars/windows.yml >>>> >>>> On Thursday, April 2, 2015 at 12:31:25 PM UTC-5, skinnedknuckles wrote: >>>>> >>>>> I'm having trouble getting win_ping to work with or without SSL. Here >>>>> are my details... >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> CentOS Linux release 7.1.1503 (Core) >>>>> >>>>> ansible 1.8 (devel 57d2622c8c) last updated 2014/10/17 18:19:13 (GMT >>>>> -500) >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> using pywinrm-0.0.3-py2.7 >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> I started winrm on the remote node using this script from >>>>> Hindenes/Church >>>>> <https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/devel/examples/scripts/ConfigureRemotingForAnsible.ps1> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> windows.yml file contains... >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> ansible_ssh_user: ansible >>>>> >>>>> ansivle_ssh_pass: ansible123 >>>>> >>>>> ansible_ssh_port: 5986 >>>>> >>>>> ansible_connection: winrm >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> hosts file contains... >>>>> >>>>> [windows] >>>>> ComputerName >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> This is my output when trying to run win_ping >>>>> >>>>> [ansmgr@dhcp1-60-20 ansible]$ ansible windows -m win_ping -vvvv >>>>> >>>>> <www.example.com <http://ads-6999.am.ad.seagate.com>> ESTABLISH >>>>> CONNECTION FOR USER: ansmgr >>>>> >>>>> <www.example.com <http://ads-6999.am.ad.seagate.com>> REMOTE_MODULE >>>>> win_ping >>>>> >>>>> <www.example.com <http://ads-6999.am.ad.seagate.com>> EXEC ssh -C -tt >>>>> -vvv -o ControlMaster=auto -o ControlPersist=60s -o >>>>> ControlPath=/home/ansmgr/.ansible/cp/ansible-ssh-%h-%p-%r -o >>>>> KbdInteractiveAuthentication=no -o PreferredAuthentications= >>>>> gssapi-with-mic,gssapi-keyex,hostbased,publickey -o >>>>> PasswordAuthentication=no -o ConnectTimeout=10 www.example.com >>>>> <http://ads-6999.am.ad.seagate.com> /bin/sh -c 'mkdir -p >>>>> $HOME/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1427994666.99-36837830948182 && chmod >>>>> a+rx $HOME/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1427994666.99-36837830948182 && >>>>> echo $HOME/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1427994666.99-36837830948182' >>>>> >>>>> www.example.com <http://ads-6999.am.ad.seagate.com> | FAILED => SSH >>>>> encountered an unknown error. The output was: >>>>> >>>>> OpenSSH_6.6.1, OpenSSL 1.0.1e-fips 11 Feb 2013 >>>>> >>>>> debug1: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh/ssh_config >>>>> >>>>> debug1: /etc/ssh/ssh_config line 56: Applying options for * >>>>> >>>>> debug1: auto-mux: Trying existing master >>>>> >>>>> debug1: Control socket "/home/ansmgr/.ansible/cp/ >>>>> ansible-ssh-www.example.com-22-ansmgr" does not exist >>>>> >>>>> debug2: ssh_connect: needpriv 0 >>>>> >>>>> debug1: Connecting to www.example.com >>>>> <http://ads-6999.am.ad.seagate.com> [123.123.123.123] port 22. >>>>> >>>>> debug2: fd 3 setting O_NONBLOCK >>>>> >>>>> debug1: connect to address 123.123.123.123 port 22: Connection refused >>>>> >>>>> ssh: connect to host www.example.com >>>>> <http://ads-6999.am.ad.seagate.com> port 22: Connection refused >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the >>> Google Groups "Ansible Project" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this topic, visit >>> https://groups.google.com/d/topic/ansible-project/IgVLtavpGCE/unsubscribe >>> . >>> To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to >>> [email protected]. >>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >>> To view this discussion on the web visit >>> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/e8818ff4-57ad-4142-b659-6ebb3bbde34e%40googlegroups.com >>> >>> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/e8818ff4-57ad-4142-b659-6ebb3bbde34e%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >>> . >>> >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>> >> >> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ansible Project" group. 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