# unable to ping windows machine using ansible

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/unable-to-ping-windows-machine-using-ansible/26776>\
**Category:** Ansible Project\
**Tags:** windows\
**Created:** [February 18, 2018, 11:49am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/unable-to-ping-windows-machine-using-ansible/26776 "2018-02-18T11:49:20Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Sameer\_Modak](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/sameer_modak/32/5180_2.png) [@Sameer\_Modak](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Sameer_Modak)\
**Post date:** [February 18, 2018, 11:49am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/unable-to-ping-windows-machine-using-ansible/26776/1 "2018-02-18T11:49:20Z")

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Below is the configuration and its corresponding error,

```auto
[windows]
192.168.1.102
[windows:vars]
ansible_ssh_user=smodak
ansible_ssh_pass= ******
ansible_ssh_port=5986
ansible_connection=winrm
ansible_winrm_server_cert_validation=ignore

```

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**Author:** ![Jeremie\_Levy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e95f7d/32.png) [@Jeremie\_Levy](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Jeremie_Levy)\
**Post date:** [February 18, 2018, 2:40pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/unable-to-ping-windows-machine-using-ansible/26776/2 "2018-02-18T14:40:13Z")

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Your config should look like this:

ansible\_user: username  
#password goes here when you don’t want to use -k option.  
ansible\_password: password  
ansible\_port: 5986  
ansible\_connection: winrm  
ansible\_winrm\_transport: kerberos  
ansible\_winrm\_scheme: https  
ansible\_winrm\_server\_cert\_validation: ignore  
ansible\_winrm\_kerberos\_delegation: true

And you need to run the script [https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ansible/ansible/devel/examples/scripts/ConfigureRemotingForAnsible.ps1](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ansible/ansible/devel/examples/scripts/ConfigureRemotingForAnsible.ps1) First

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**Author:** ![Tchia04](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/fbc32d/32.png) [@Tchia04](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Tchia04)\
**Post date:** [February 18, 2018, 7:09pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/unable-to-ping-windows-machine-using-ansible/26776/3 "2018-02-18T19:09:12Z")

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What happends when you run “telnet 192.168.1.102” on the ansible controller box?

On the windows box, did you run the script ConfigureRemotingForAnsible.ps1 which you can obtain from here  
[https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/devel/examples/scripts/ConfigureRemotingForAnsible.ps1](https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/devel/examples/scripts/ConfigureRemotingForAnsible.ps1)