ansible not reading group_vars/windows.yml

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seems ansible is not reading group_vars/windows.yml
tried renaming to group_vars/windows same result

`
$ ansible --version
ansible 2.2.1.0

$ ansible windows --list-hosts
hosts (1):
ex-domain1

$ cat group_vars/windows.yml
ansible_user: Administrator
ansible_port: 5986
ansible_connection: winrm
ansible_winrm_server_cert_validation: ignore

$ ansible windows -m debug -a msg=“{{ansible_user}}”
ex-domain1 | SUCCESS => {
“msg”: “root”
}

$ cat ansible.cfg
[defaults]
inventory = ./inventory
remote_user = root
roles_path = ./roles
`

2

Hrm, running this exact stuff works fine for me on 2.2.1 (from source).

3

my control machine is ubuntu 16.04, ansible and winrm installed with pip. whats yours? ill try from source.

4

Fedora 25, but shouldn’t matter unless somebody horribly broke something in packaging…

5

(especially since you installed from pip)

6

group_vars was in the playbooks directory. moved it to inventory and it worked. group_vars/all
worked fine from the playbooks directory.