# ssh connection issues.

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/ssh-connection-issues/18297>\
**Category:** Ansible Developer\
**Tags:** windows, fedora\
**Created:** [May 25, 2015, 4:42am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ssh-connection-issues/18297 "2015-05-25T04:42:05Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Shubhra\_Rana](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/22d042/32.png) [@Shubhra\_Rana](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Shubhra_Rana)\
**Post date:** [May 25, 2015, 4:42am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ssh-connection-issues/18297/1 "2015-05-25T04:42:05Z")

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Hi,  
I am a new ansible user. Wanted to set up a basic environment with two nodes, one control node with ansible installed (Fedora 20) and one node (Windows 2012 r2). Ansible is installed on the fedora machine, but the following error comes when I try to ping the windows machine.

key\_from\_blob: EC\_KEY\_new\_by\_curve\_name failed

Can i get some help in this regard ?

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**Author:** ![Brian\_Coca](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6de8d8/32.png) [@Brian\_Coca](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Brian_Coca)\
**Post date:** [May 25, 2015, 2:47pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ssh-connection-issues/18297/2 "2015-05-25T14:47:10Z")

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the supported way to handle windows managed machines is via the winrm  
connection plugin [http://docs.ansible.com/intro\_windows.html](http://docs.ansible.com/intro_windows.html)

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**Author:** ![Shubhra\_Rana](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/22d042/32.png) [@Shubhra\_Rana](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Shubhra_Rana)\
**Post date:** [May 26, 2015, 6:56am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ssh-connection-issues/18297/3 "2015-05-26T06:56:07Z")

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Thanks for your prompt response.