# Adding windows as client to Ansible server

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/adding-windows-as-client-to-ansible-server/28248>\
**Category:** Ansible Project\
**Tags:** windows, rhel\
**Created:** [August 3, 2018, 6:48am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/adding-windows-as-client-to-ansible-server/28248 "2018-08-03T06:48:03Z")\
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**Author:** ![Vamsi\_Krishna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/a8b319/32.png) [@Vamsi\_Krishna](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Vamsi_Krishna)\
**Post date:** [August 3, 2018, 6:48am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/adding-windows-as-client-to-ansible-server/28248/1 "2018-08-03T06:48:03Z")

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HI All,

Greetings …!

I am trying to setup Ansible environment and in that process I need to add windows client to my Ansible servers. I am getting below error and need your suggestions

Environment:-  
Ansible server – RHEL 7.5  
Domain- no, local account  
Network – 10.31.xx.xx

Windows server – Windows 2008 sp1  
Domain – yes  
Network – 10.32.xx.xx  
winrm – open

[ansible@server ~]$ ansible win -m win\_ping -vvvv  
ansible 2.6.1  
config file = /etc/ansible/ansible.cfg  
configured module search path = [u’/home/ansible/.ansible/plugins/modules’, u’/usr/share/ansible/plugins/modules’]  
ansible python module location = /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ansible  
executable location = /usr/bin/ansible  
python version = 2.7.5 (default, May 31 2018, 09:41:32) [GCC 4.8.5 20150623 (Red Hat 4.8.5-28)]  
Using /etc/ansible/ansible.cfg as config file  
[DEPRECATION WARNING]: DEFAULT\_SUDO\_USER option, In favor of Ansible Become, which is a generic framework. See become\_user. , use become instead.  
This feature will be removed in version 2.8. Deprecation warnings can be disabled by setting deprecation\_warnings=False in ansible.cfg.  
setting up inventory plugins  
Parsed /etc/ansible/hosts inventory source with ini plugin  
Loading callback plugin minimal of type stdout, v2.0 from /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ansible/plugins/callback/minimal.pyc  
META: ran handlers  
Using module file /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ansible/modules/windows/win\_ping.ps1  
\<[servername.AD.com](http://servername.AD.com)\> ESTABLISH WINRM CONNECTION FOR USER: ansible on PORT 5985 TO [servername.AD.com](http://servername.AD.com)  
checking if winrm\_host [servername.AD.com](http://servername.AD.com) is an IPv6 address  
Using module file /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ansible/modules/windows/win\_ping.ps1  
\<10.32.xx.xxx\> ESTABLISH WINRM CONNECTION FOR USER: ansible on PORT 5985 TO 10.32.xx.xxx  
checking if winrm\_host 10.32.xx.xxx is an IPv6 address  
[servername.AD.com](http://servername.AD.com) | UNREACHABLE! =\> {  
“changed”: false,  
“msg”: “ntlm: HTTPConnectionPool(host=‘[servername.AD.com](http://servername.AD.com)’, port=5985): Max retries exceeded with url: /wsman (Caused by NewConnectionError(‘\<urllib3.connection.HTTPConnection object at 0x7fdd5b867410\>: Failed to establish a new connection: [Errno 111] Connection refused’,))”,  
“unreachable”: true  
}

I have followed the steps given in below blogs yet i am unable to establish connection

[https://argonsys.com/learn-microsoft-cloud/articles/configuring-ansible-manage-windows-servers-step-step/](https://argonsys.com/learn-microsoft-cloud/articles/configuring-ansible-manage-windows-servers-step-step/)  
[https://digitalist.global/talks/winrmansible/](https://digitalist.global/talks/winrmansible/)

[https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/2.4/intro\_windows.html](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/2.4/intro_windows.html)

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0SQ-3-QDzw&t=507s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0SQ-3-QDzw&t=507s)

Now my questions are

1. Since Ansible and windows are in different network, do i need to open any ports from firewall ?
2. As the windows server is in AD, do i need to follow kerberos authentication steps ? Here Linux server is not in AD. this is accessible inside jump post
3. What steps i need to take to make successfully authentication

Best Regards  
Vamsi

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**Author:** ![Julien](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/71e660/32.png) [@Julien](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Julien)\
**Post date:** [August 3, 2018, 9:23am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/adding-windows-as-client-to-ansible-server/28248/2 "2018-08-03T09:23:28Z")

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Hello Vamsi,

Can you try to run this script into your windows host and retry? It is an official script made by ansible team to configure WinRM

[https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/devel/examples/scripts/ConfigureRemotingForAnsible.ps1](https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/devel/examples/scripts/ConfigureRemotingForAnsible.ps1)