# Help with Windows Clients **URL:** \ **Category:** Ansible Project\ **Tags:** windows, ubuntu\ **Created:** [August 30, 2020, 10:31am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/help-with-windows-clients/33702 "2020-08-30T10:31:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Suhas\_H](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/57b2e6/32.png) [@Suhas\_H](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Suhas_H)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2020, 10:31am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/help-with-windows-clients/33702/1 "2020-08-30T10:31:12Z")
Dear friends/ Tech Team, I am Suhas from Bangalore. I am looking for some technical help from the group. I am new into Ansible. I am having 12 + years of total experience in Windows. I am getting some errors while setting up windows clients to be controlled from ansible. I have setup ansible on Ubuntu Server. Hosts File-- /etc/hosts 127.0.0.1 localhost 127.0.1.1 test-serv 192.168.0.146 192.168.0.147 8.8.8.8 c1.local c2.local # The following lines are desirable for IPv6 capable hosts ::1 ip6-localhost ip6-loopback fe00::0 ip6-localnet ff00::0 ip6-mcastprefix ff02::1 ip6-allnodes ff02::2 ip6-allrouters ansible hosts file – /etc/ansible/hosts # Ex 3: A collection of database servers in the ‘dbservers’ group #[dbservers] ---
**Author:** ![Kundan\_Singh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/958977/32.png) [@Kundan\_Singh](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Kundan_Singh)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2020, 2:36am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/help-with-windows-clients/33702/2 "2020-08-31T02:36:50Z")
Hi , You can create same your own host file on the controller server rather then makeing changing in your ansible default directory on the controller server. There are defferent ways to create host For me this worked. Ex:-[win\_server] 10.16.45.110 ```auto ansible_user=Administrator ansible_password=password ``` ```auto ansible_port=5985or5986 ``` ```auto ansible_connection=winrm ansible_winrm_server_cert_validation=ignore ```