Not able to connect to windows machine using Ansible.

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I am new to Ansible and trying to connect to windows machine using Ansible. I am getting following error:

`

cic-svr-reiis02.corp.exlservice.com | UNREACHABLE! => {
“changed”: false,
“msg”: “plaintext: HTTPConnectionPool(host=‘cic-svr-reiis02.corp.exlservice.com’, port=5985): Max retries exceeded with url: /wsman (Caused by NewConnectionError(‘<requests.packages.urllib3.connection.HTTPConnection object at 0x3d76050>: Failed to establish a new connection: [Errno 111] Connection refused’,))”,
“unreachable”: true
}

`

I have made changes in these three files.

  1. Inventory:

[windows] xxx.xxx.xxx.com
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  1. Krb5.conf

[realms] XXX.XXX.COM = { kdc = xxx.xxx.xxx.com admin_server = xxx.xxx.xxx.com } [domain_realm] .xxx.xxx.com = XXX.XXX.COM
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  1. group_vars/windows.yml

    ansible_ssh_user: user ansible_ssh_pass: password ansible_ssh_port: 5985 ansible_connection: winrm

I am new to this and may have made mistake in the process of connectivity. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks in advance.

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From the error message it seems like the WinRM endpoint is not enabled on the remote server hence the Failed to establish a new connection error. Try and use this script to set up the WinRM endpoint on your server https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ansible/ansible/devel/examples/scripts/ConfigureRemotingForAnsible.ps1.

Once you have done that you should have the following entries in your inventory/group_vars

ansible_user: user@DOMAIN
ansible_password: password
ansible_port: 5986
ansible_connection: winrm
ansible_winrm_cert_validation: ignore