Playbook command on windows machine

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Good morning,
I am running Ansible 2.0 on my Debian host machine. I have successfully connected to my windows server 2008 m via ping and other types of playbooks.
I am currently attempting to run a playbook that grabs a program off of a shared network folder and installs it on the desired windows machine, but i get:

fatal: [GP1-LAB-OPSTST2]: FAILED! => {“changed”: false, “failed”: true, “msg”: “The given Path (S:\ClamWin\clamwin-0.99.1-setup.exe) could not be found”, “name”: “S:\ClamWin\clamwin-0.99.1-setup.exe”}

That is clearly the path.

My playbook looks like this:

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Just get rid of the quotes and double-backslashes altogether and use standard YAML syntax (instead of Ansible key=value) to get some of the extra parsers out of the way:

  • name: Install Clamwin
    hosts: WindowsOS
    tasks:
  • name: Install ClamWin
    win_package:
    path: S:\ClamWin\clamwin-0.99.1-setup.exe
    product_id: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\ClamWin Free Antivirus_is1
    arguments: /install /passive /norestart
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Drive mapping will also most likely not work- for now, you’ll need to use kerberos delegation or use the user/pass args to win_package and direct UNC path.