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Hi team,

I am trying to setup winrm connection to windows 12 but getting below error:

<10.47.11.89> WINRM CONNECTION ERROR: the specified credentials were rejected by the server Traceback (most recent call last): File “/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/ansible/plugins/connection/winrm.py”, line 154, in _winrm_connect self.shell_id = protocol.open_shell(codepage=65001) # UTF-8 File “/var/lib/awx/venv/ansible/lib/python2.6/site-packages/winrm/protocol.py”, line 132, in open_shell res = self.send_message(xmltodict.unparse(req)) File “/var/lib/awx/venv/ansible/lib/python2.6/site-packages/winrm/protocol.py”, line 207, in send_message return self.transport.send_message(message) File “/var/lib/awx/venv/ansible/lib/python2.6/site-packages/winrm/transport.py”, line 179, in send_message raise InvalidCredentialsError(“the specified credentials were rejected by the server”) InvalidCredentialsError: the specified credentials were rejected by the server fatal: [10.47.11.89]: UNREACHABLE! => { “changed”: false, “msg”: “basic: the specified credentials were rejected by the server”, “unreachable”: true } to retry, use: --limit @/var/lib/awx/.ansible/tmp/test_housekeeping_full.retry

The user that i am trying is added to administrator group as well still the issue.
Can someone please suggest.

Regards,
Ishita

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Share me your host file which you have configured in ansible, where you have decalared your connection type as winrm etc. May be i can look into it and help you.

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You are also using Basic authentication over HTTP which isn’t allowed by default on Windows and would be causing the rejection error. Please switch to a more secure authentication transport that can encrypt the messages over http like NTLM, Kerberos or CredSSP or use a HTTPS endpoint which encrypts the whole transport packets for you.

Thanks

Jordan

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Check whether these configurations are there in your host file…

ansible_user: admin
ansible_password: XXXXXXX
ansible_winrm_scheme: https
ansible_winrm_transport: credssp
ansible_port: 5986
ansible_connection: winrm
ansible_winrm_server_cert_validation: ignore
validate_certs: false