# Connection reset by peer **URL:** \ **Category:** Ansible Project\ **Tags:** windows, fedora\ **Created:** [October 14, 2014, 7:16pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/connection-reset-by-peer/16508 "2014-10-14T19:16:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Anderson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/45deac/32.png) [@Jonathan\_Anderson](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Jonathan_Anderson)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2014, 7:16pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/connection-reset-by-peer/16508/1 "2014-10-14T19:16:01Z")
I’ve been trying to get win\_ping to work for weeks now so I’d be so grateful if someone could help identify my problem. System details Fedora 20 Ansible ver 1.8 Here are my setup commands (from a clean Fedora install). sudo yum install gcc sudo yum install git sudo yum install python sudo yum install python-setuptools python-setuptools-devel sudo yum install python-devel sudo yum install python2-devel sudo yum install python-pip sudo yum install rpm-build sudo git clone git://github.com/ansible/ansible.git /etc/ansible The following command never works for me. cd /etc/ansible sudo make rpm sed “s/%VERSION%/1.8/” docs/man/man1/ansible-doc.1.asciidoc.in \> docs/man/man1/ansible-doc.1.asciidoc /bin/sh: docs/man/man1/ansible-doc.1.asciidoc: Permission denied make: \*\*\* [docs/man/man1/ansible-doc.1.asciidoc] Error 1 sudo pip install [http://github.com/diyan/pywinrm/archive/master.zip#egg=pywinrm](http://github.com/diyan/pywinrm/archive/master.zip#egg=pywinrm) sudo cp /etc/ansible/lib/ansible/module\_utils/powershell.ps1 /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ansible/module\_utils source ./hacking/env-setup How do I install Python 2.7 without installing Python 3.x? Are any of my setup commands above redundant or unnecessary? Here is my inventory [ansmgr@dhcp1-59-159 ansible]$ cat hosts [windows] 123.123.123.123 Here I specify that I’m using powershell instead of ssh [ansmgr@dhcp1-59-159 group\_vars]$ cat windows.yml ansible\_ssh\_user: ansmgr ansible\_ssh\_pass: ansiblepw ansible\_ssh\_port: 5986 ansible\_connection: winrm I have installed powershell on my remote node and have run the Trond Hindenes script with “Basic -value $true” Here is the debug output of my win\_ping command. [ansmgr@dhcp1-59-159 ansible]$ ansible all -i hosts -m win\_ping --ask-vault-pass -vvvv Vault password: \<123.123.123.123\> ESTABLISH WINRM CONNECTION FOR USER: ansmgr on PORT 5986 TO 123.123.123.123 \<123.123.123.123\> WINRM CONNECT: transport=plaintext endpoint=[https://123.123.123.123:5986/wsman](https://123.123.123.123:5986/wsman) \<123.123.123.123\> WINRM CONNECTION ERROR: 500 WinRMTransport. [Errno 104] Connection reset by peer \<123.123.123.123\> WINRM CONNECT: transport=plaintext endpoint=[http://123.123.123.123:5986/wsman](http://123.123.123.123:5986/wsman) 123.123.123.123 | FAILED =\> Traceback (most recent call last): File “/etc/ansible/lib/ansible/runner/ **init**.py”, line 559, in \_executor exec\_rc = self.\_executor\_internal(host, new\_stdin) File “/etc/ansible/lib/ansible/runner/ **init**.py”, line 732, in \_executor\_internal return self.\_executor\_internal\_inner(host, self.module\_name, self.module\_args, inject, port, complex\_args=complex\_args) File “/etc/ansible/lib/ansible/runner/ **init**.py”, line 895, in \_executor\_internal\_inner conn = self.connector.connect(actual\_host, actual\_port, actual\_user, actual\_pass, actual\_transport, actual\_private\_key\_file) File “/etc/ansible/lib/ansible/runner/connection.py”, line 44, in connect self.active = conn.connect() File “/etc/ansible/lib/ansible/runner/connection\_plugins/winrm.py”, line 132, in connect self.protocol = self.\_winrm\_connect() File “/etc/ansible/lib/ansible/runner/connection\_plugins/winrm.py”, line 86, in \_winrm\_connect protocol.send\_message(‘’) File “/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/winrm/protocol.py”, line 173, in send\_message return self.transport.send\_message(message) File “/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/winrm/transport.py”, line 76, in send\_message response = urlopen(request, timeout=self.timeout) File “/usr/lib64/python2.7/urllib2.py”, line 127, in urlopen return \_opener.open(url, data, timeout) File “/usr/lib64/python2.7/urllib2.py”, line 404, in open response = self.\_open(req, data) File “/usr/lib64/python2.7/urllib2.py”, line 422, in \_open ‘\_open’, req) File “/usr/lib64/python2.7/urllib2.py”, line 382, in \_call\_chain result = func(\*args) File “/usr/lib64/python2.7/urllib2.py”, line 1216, in http\_open return self.do\_open(httplib.HTTPConnection, req) File “/usr/lib64/python2.7/urllib2.py”, line 1189, in do\_open r = h.getresponse(buffering=True) File “/usr/lib64/python2.7/httplib.py”, line 1045, in getresponse response.begin() File “/usr/lib64/python2.7/httplib.py”, line 409, in begin version, status, reason = self.\_read\_status() File “/usr/lib64/python2.7/httplib.py”, line 365, in \_read\_status line = self.fp.readline(\_MAXLINE + 1) File “/usr/lib64/python2.7/socket.py”, line 476, in readline data = self.\_sock.recv(self.\_rbufsize) error: [Errno 104] Connection reset by peer ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Anderson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/45deac/32.png) [@Jonathan\_Anderson](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Jonathan_Anderson)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2014, 3:28pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/connection-reset-by-peer/16508/2 "2014-11-07T15:28:28Z")
There must be a problem with my encryption because when I run this line in powershell it works. winrm set winrm/config/service ‘@{AllowUnencrypted=“true”}’ ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Anderson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/45deac/32.png) [@Jonathan\_Anderson](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Jonathan_Anderson)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2015, 1:45am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/connection-reset-by-peer/16508/3 "2015-04-26T01:45:26Z")
Okay this is fixed. The values assigned to the variables “ansible\_ssh\_user” and “ansible\_ssh\_pass” must: 1. Exactly match an account on the windows machine with admin privileges (account must exist but need NOT be current active login) 2. If you are using SSL and the value of winrm/config/service/AllowUnencrypted is true (this is the default) the values in ansible\group\_vars\windows.yml must exactly match the username and password that was submitted to generate the SSL web certificate. In my case I also had to append the computer name with the port number in the inventory like this [windows] ComputerName:5986 (or 5985 for AllowUnedcrypted=“true” type this command in powershell PS C:\winrm set winrm/config/service ‘@{AllowUnencrypted=“true”}’ done.