# Target machines are unreachable

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/target-machines-are-unreachable/32856>\
**Category:** Ansible Project\
**Tags:** windows\
**Created:** [May 6, 2020, 12:51am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/target-machines-are-unreachable/32856 "2020-05-06T00:51:24Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Work\_Email](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/34f0e0/32.png) [@Work\_Email](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Work_Email)\
**Post date:** [May 6, 2020, 12:51am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/target-machines-are-unreachable/32856/1 "2020-05-06T00:51:24Z")

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my target machines are up. I don’t understand why I am running this error

Using module file /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/ansible/modules/windows/setup.ps1  
Pipelining is enabled.  
 ESTABLISH WINRM CONNECTION FOR USER: None on PORT 5986 TO   
fatal: []: UNREACHABLE! =\> {  
“changed”: false,  
“msg”: “ssl: auth method ssl requires a username”,  
“unreachable”: true  
}

Can someone please explain? Thanks

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**Author:** ![Work\_Email](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/34f0e0/32.png) [@Work\_Email](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Work_Email)\
**Post date:** [May 6, 2020, 1:22am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/target-machines-are-unreachable/32856/2 "2020-05-06T01:22:00Z")

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FAILED! =\> {“changed”: false, “cmd”: [“dpkg”, “–configure”, “a”], “delta”: “0:00:00.064010”, “end”: “2020-05-06 01:18:35.173136”, “msg”: “non-zero return code”, “rc”: 1, “start”: “2020-05-06 01:18:35.109126”, “stderr”: “dpkg: error processing package a (–configure):\n no package named ‘a’ is installed, cannot configure\nErrors were encountered while processing:\n a”, “stderr\_lines”: [“dpkg: error processing package a (–configure):”, " no package named ‘a’ is installed, cannot configure", “Errors were encountered while processing:”, " a"], “stdout”: “”, “stdout\_lines”: }

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**Author:** ![Dick\_Visser](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d9b06d/32.png) [@Dick\_Visser](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Dick_Visser)\
**Post date:** [May 6, 2020, 5:33am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/target-machines-are-unreachable/32856/3 "2020-05-06T05:33:08Z")

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I see two totally unrelated messages containing just an error?  
To answer your question more information is needed. Could you please describe clearly all of the below:

- What goal you are trying to achieve.

- How you are doing this.

- What problems you encounter.

- Which commands did you run, and what actual output did you get (copied as plain text - not as screenshots, images, or other binary attachments).

- What do the relevant inventory/tasks/playbooks/code/variables look like.

- The output of ‘ansible --version’

And keep each problem to a single message