Using Ansible with remote nodes running Windows 7

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Has anyone succeeded at running ansible with a remote node running Windows 7? I’m having problems getting win-ping to work in this configuration. I’ve tried Fedora 20 and CentOs7 with Ansible 1.8. My inventory and windows.yml files are good and I’ve run

pip install http://github.com/diyan/pywinrm/archive/master.zip#egg=pywinrm

Here is my debug output.

[ansmgr@localhost ansible]$ ansible windows -c winrm -m win_ping --ask-pass -vvvv
SSH password:
<123.123.123.123> ESTABLISH WINRM CONNECTION FOR USER: ansmgr on PORT 5986 TO 123.123.123.123
<123.123.123.123> WINRM CONNECT: transport=plaintext endpoint=https://123.123.123.123:5986/wsman
<123.123.123.123> WINRM CONNECTION ERROR: 500 WinRMTransport. [Errno 104] Connection reset by peer
<123.123.123.123> WINRM CONNECT: transport=plaintext endpoint=http://123.123.123.123:5986/wsman
123.123.123.123 | FAILED => Traceback (most recent call last):

File “/etc/ansible/lib/ansible/runner/init.py”, line 559, in _executor
exec_rc = self._executor_internal(host, new_stdin)
File “/etc/ansible/lib/ansible/runner/init.py”, line 732, in _executor_internal
return self._executor_internal_inner(host, self.module_name, self.module_args, inject, port, complex_args=complex_args)
File “/etc/ansible/lib/ansible/runner/init.py”, line 895, in _executor_internal_inner
conn = self.connector.connect(actual_host, actual_port, actual_user, actual_pass, actual_transport, actual_private_key_file)
File “/etc/ansible/lib/ansible/runner/connection.py”, line 44, in connect
self.active = conn.connect()
File “/etc/ansible/lib/ansible/runner/connection_plugins/winrm.py”, line 132, in connect
self.protocol = self._winrm_connect()
File “/etc/ansible/lib/ansible/runner/connection_plugins/winrm.py”, line 86, in _winrm_connect
protocol.send_message(‘’)
File “/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/winrm/protocol.py”, line 173, in send_message
return self.transport.send_message(message)
File “/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/winrm/transport.py”, line 76, in send_message
response = urlopen(request, timeout=self.timeout)
File “/usr/lib64/python2.7/urllib2.py”, line 127, in urlopen
return _opener.open(url, data, timeout)
File “/usr/lib64/python2.7/urllib2.py”, line 404, in open
response = self._open(req, data)
File “/usr/lib64/python2.7/urllib2.py”, line 422, in _open
‘_open’, req)
File “/usr/lib64/python2.7/urllib2.py”, line 382, in _call_chain
result = func(*args)
File “/usr/lib64/python2.7/urllib2.py”, line 1216, in http_open
return self.do_open(httplib.HTTPConnection, req)
File “/usr/lib64/python2.7/urllib2.py”, line 1189, in do_open
r = h.getresponse(buffering=True)
File “/usr/lib64/python2.7/httplib.py”, line 1045, in getresponse
response.begin()
File “/usr/lib64/python2.7/httplib.py”, line 409, in begin
version, status, reason = self._read_status()
File “/usr/lib64/python2.7/httplib.py”, line 365, in _read_status
line = self.fp.readline(_MAXLINE + 1)
File “/usr/lib64/python2.7/socket.py”, line 476, in readline
data = self._sock.recv(self._rbufsize)
error: [Errno 104] Connection reset by peer

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It seems like there may be a firewall/config issue preventing you from connecting. Can you try the following using curl?

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I’ve had a couple of a occasions where I thought I had the firewall rules set right on my windows hosts but eventually realised they were set for the wrong profile - if you aren’t connecting as a domain user make sure the profile is ‘public’, for example.

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There must be a problem with my encryption because when I run this line in powershell it works.

winrm set winrm/config/service ‘@{AllowUnencrypted=“true”}’