# New install to manage Windows servers, but krb5.conf is missing

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/new-install-to-manage-windows-servers-but-krb5-conf-is-missing/21279>\
**Category:** Ansible Project\
**Tags:** windows, ubuntu\
**Created:** [April 26, 2016, 6:52pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/new-install-to-manage-windows-servers-but-krb5-conf-is-missing/21279 "2016-04-26T18:52:34Z")\
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**Author:** ![Mike\_Sherrill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/41988e/32.png) [@Mike\_Sherrill](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Mike_Sherrill)\
**Post date:** [April 26, 2016, 6:52pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/new-install-to-manage-windows-servers-but-krb5-conf-is-missing/21279/1 "2016-04-26T18:52:34Z")

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I’m installing Ansible as a test. I have a mixed environment of Windows and Ubuntu servers in an Active Directory domain.

I built a new Hyper-V virtual machine for Ansible; it’s running Xubuntu 16.04 LTS. Ansible 2.0.0.2 is installed.

I’ve been following the steps on the [Windows Support](http://docs.ansible.com/ansible/intro_windows.html) web page.

Under the section “Configuring Kerberos”, I see “Edit your /etc/krb5.conf (which should be installed as a result of installing packages above”. But /etc/krb5.conf doesn’t exist.

Unless I missed something, these are all the “packages above”.

- 

```auto
pip install "pywinrm>=0.1.1"

```

- sudo apt-get install python-dev libkrb5-dev

- 

```auto
pip install kerberos

```

What am I missing? Another package?

I installed Ansible following the instructions for [Latest Releases Via Apt](http://docs.ansible.com/ansible/intro_installation.html#latest-releases-via-apt-ubuntu), but I don’t seem to have the latest version. Is this a problem?

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**Author:** ![j.r.hawkesworth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a3d4f5/32.png) [@j.r.hawkesworth](https://forum.ansible.com/u/j.r.hawkesworth)\
**Post date:** [April 26, 2016, 11:44pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/new-install-to-manage-windows-servers-but-krb5-conf-is-missing/21279/2 "2016-04-26T23:44:58Z")

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Looking at

[https://help.ubuntu.com/lts/serverguide/kerberos.html](https://help.ubuntu.com/lts/serverguide/kerberos.html)

I think you might need

```auto
krb5-user

```

which I guess might be the equivalent of the yum package krb5-workstation

Please reply if this installs the /etc/krb5.conf and I will get the documentation updated.

Hope this helps,

Jon

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**Author:** ![Mike\_Sherrill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/41988e/32.png) [@Mike\_Sherrill](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Mike_Sherrill)\
**Post date:** [April 27, 2016, 2:22am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/new-install-to-manage-windows-servers-but-krb5-conf-is-missing/21279/3 "2016-04-27T02:22:01Z")

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That did it. Onward . . .

Thanks.

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**Author:** ![j.r.hawkesworth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a3d4f5/32.png) [@j.r.hawkesworth](https://forum.ansible.com/u/j.r.hawkesworth)\
**Post date:** [May 17, 2016, 7:22am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/new-install-to-manage-windows-servers-but-krb5-conf-is-missing/21279/4 "2016-05-17T07:22:39Z")

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Just to follow up, I made this pull request to update the documentation  
[https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/15894](https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/15894)