# win\_ping issue **URL:** \ **Category:** Ansible Project\ **Tags:** windows, fedora\ **Created:** [September 24, 2014, 2:51pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/win-ping-issue/16321 "2014-09-24T14:51:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Anderson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/45deac/32.png) [@Jonathan\_Anderson](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Jonathan_Anderson)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2014, 2:51pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/win-ping-issue/16321/1 "2014-09-24T14:51:27Z")
I’m having trouble getting win\_ping to work. Here is my info: Fedora 20 Ansible 1.7.1 Remote node running windows 7 The WinRM script by Trond runs without errors on the remote node Control and Remote Machines are both on Lan with common domain w/o firewalls So far as I can tell I’ve installed everything on control and remote machine as described in documentation My inventory file contains [ads800s] ADS-6999 ansible\_ssh\_host=123.123.123.123 My windows.yml file is in the group\_vars directory and contains ansible\_ssh\_user: ansmgr ansible\_ssh\_pass: ansiblepw ansible\_ssh\_port: 5986 ansible\_connection: winrm Can you tell what I’m doing wrong? Do you need any more information? Here is the debugging output of my win\_ping command (with -c winrm is below) [ansmgr@LinuxControlMachine ansible]$ ansible ADS-6999 -m win\_ping -vvvv \<123.123.123.123\> ESTABLISH CONNECTION FOR USER: ansmgr \<123.123.123.123\> REMOTE\_MODULE win\_ping \<123.123.123.123\> EXEC [‘ssh’, ‘-C’, ‘-tt’, ‘-vvv’, ‘-o’, ‘ControlMaster=auto’, ‘-o’, ‘ControlPersist=60s’, ‘-o’, ‘ControlPath=/home/ansmgr/.ansible/cp/ansible-ssh-%h-%p-%r’, ‘-o’, ‘Port=22’, ‘-o’, ‘KbdInteractiveAuthentication=no’, ‘-o’, ‘PreferredAuthentications=gssapi-with-mic,gssapi-keyex,hostbased,publickey’, ‘-o’, ‘PasswordAuthentication=no’, ‘-o’, ‘ConnectTimeout=10’, ‘123.123.123.123’, “/bin/sh -c ‘mkdir -p $HOME/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1411567957.01-192759344617423 && chmod a+rx $HOME/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1411567957.01-192759344617423 && echo $HOME/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1411567957.01-192759344617423’”] ADS-6999 | FAILED =\> SSH encountered an unknown error. The output was: OpenSSH\_6.4, OpenSSL 1.0.1e-fips 11 Feb 2013 debug1: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh/ssh\_config debug1: /etc/ssh/ssh\_config line 51: Applying options for \* debug1: auto-mux: Trying existing master debug1: Control socket “/home/ansmgr/.ansible/cp/ansible-ssh-123.123.123.123-22-ansmgr” does not exist debug2: ssh\_connect: needpriv 0 debug1: Connecting to 123.123.123.123 [123.123.123.123] port 22. debug2: fd 3 setting O\_NONBLOCK debug1: connect to address 123.123.123.123 port 22: Connection refused ssh: connect to host 123.123.123.123 port 22: Connection refused Here is the debugging output of my win\_ping command with -c winrm is below [ansmgr@LinuxControlMachine ansible]$ ansible ADS-6999 -c winrm -m win\_ping -vvvv \<123.123.123.123\> ESTABLISH WINRM CONNECTION FOR USER: ansmgr on PORT 5986 TO 123.123.123.123 ADS-6999 | FAILED =\> Traceback (most recent call last): File “/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ansible/runner/ **init**.py”, line 561, in \_executor exec\_rc = self.\_executor\_internal(host, new\_stdin) File “/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ansible/runner/ **init**.py”, line 666, in \_executor\_internal return self.\_executor\_internal\_inner(host, self.module\_name, self.module\_args, inject, port, complex\_args=complex\_args) File “/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ansible/runner/ **init**.py”, line 837, in \_executor\_internal\_inner conn = self.connector.connect(actual\_host, actual\_port, actual\_user, actual\_pass, actual\_transport, actual\_private\_key\_file) File “/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ansible/runner/connection.py”, line 34, in connect self.active = conn.connect() File “/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ansible/runner/connection\_plugins/winrm.py”, line 132, in connect self.protocol = self.\_winrm\_connect() File “/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ansible/runner/connection\_plugins/winrm.py”, line 71, in \_winrm\_connect cache\_key = ‘%s:%s@%s:%d’ % (self.user, hashlib.md5(self.password).hexdigest(), self.host, port) TypeError: md5() argument 1 must be string or buffer, not None ---
**Author:** ![sivel](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/sivel/32/1198_2.png) [@sivel](https://forum.ansible.com/u/sivel)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2014, 3:32pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/win-ping-issue/16321/2 "2014-09-24T15:32:50Z")
It seems as though your group\_vars is not being picked up. Is your inventory file and your group\_vars directory located in the same place? By default this is where ansible looks, so both should be in the same directory. ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Anderson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/45deac/32.png) [@Jonathan\_Anderson](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Jonathan_Anderson)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2014, 4:02pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/win-ping-issue/16321/3 "2014-09-24T16:02:49Z")
Both the inventory file (hosts) and the group\_vars folder are in /etc/ansible ---
**Author:** ![j.r.hawkesworth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a3d4f5/32.png) [@j.r.hawkesworth](https://forum.ansible.com/u/j.r.hawkesworth)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2014, 10:36am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/win-ping-issue/16321/4 "2014-09-29T10:36:19Z")
Try not setting the ansible\_ssh\_host in your inventory - I think this might be forcing it to attempt ssh transport, which of course isn’t going to work for windows hosts. In other words, change [ads800s] ADS-6999 ansible\_ssh\_host=123.123.123.123 to ads800s] ADS-6999 and ensure ADS-6999 can either be resolved by your local dns or as an entry in /etc/hosts ---
**Author:** ![Michael\_DeHaan1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5e9695/32.png) [@Michael\_DeHaan1](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Michael_DeHaan1)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2014, 12:03pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/win-ping-issue/16321/5 "2014-09-29T12:03:04Z")
ansible\_ssh\_host does not imply the transport. Let’s ask the starter question, “what’s the output of ansible --version” ? ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Anderson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/45deac/32.png) [@Jonathan\_Anderson](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Jonathan_Anderson)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2014, 1:12pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/win-ping-issue/16321/6 "2014-09-29T13:12:27Z")
ansible 1.7.1 (this and other details are in the original posting) ---
**Author:** ![Michael\_DeHaan1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5e9695/32.png) [@Michael\_DeHaan1](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Michael_DeHaan1)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2014, 1:20pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/win-ping-issue/16321/7 "2014-09-29T13:20:19Z")
Sorry for the confusion, I was replying to the incorrect assertion above and missed the scrollback. Please make sure you file a ticket for this one as tracebacks in Ansible are definitely bugs, though it sounds like you need to either use --ask-pass or set ansible\_ssh\_pass – though the variable name is named “ssh” it’s not limited to being used just for SSH. ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Anderson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/45deac/32.png) [@Jonathan\_Anderson](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Jonathan_Anderson)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2014, 3:21pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/win-ping-issue/16321/8 "2014-09-29T15:21:52Z")
My windows.yml file is in the group\_vars directory and contains ---
**Author:** ![Chris\_Church1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ac8455/32.png) [@Chris\_Church1](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Chris_Church1)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2014, 5:27pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/win-ping-issue/16321/9 "2014-09-30T17:27:28Z")
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**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Anderson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/45deac/32.png) [@Jonathan\_Anderson](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Jonathan_Anderson)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2014, 3:28pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/win-ping-issue/16321/10 "2014-11-07T15:28:57Z")
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”}’ ---
**Author:** ![Bluesky1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a87d85/32.png) [@Bluesky1](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Bluesky1)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2017, 2:42am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/win-ping-issue/16321/11 "2017-07-13T02:42:34Z")
hello，Skinnedknuckles I ask you how the final solution to the problem? I also encountered this Error, hope you can get your help, thank you very much! 在 2014年9月24日星期三 UTC+8下午10:51:28，skinnedknuckles写道： ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Anderson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/45deac/32.png) [@Jonathan\_Anderson](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Jonathan_Anderson)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2017, 2:05am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/win-ping-issue/16321/12 "2017-07-14T02:05:48Z")
check out this post for detailed items to check on your setup [https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/ansible-project/DJqUWVnH5Go](https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/ansible-project/DJqUWVnH5Go)