# WINRM CONNECTION ERROR: function takes at most 2 arguments (3 given) **URL:** \ **Category:** Ansible Project\ **Tags:** windows\ **Created:** [May 22, 2020, 12:14am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/winrm-connection-error-function-takes-at-most-2-arguments-3-given/33002 "2020-05-22T00:14:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Kiran\_Kumar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f475e1/32.png) [@Kiran\_Kumar](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Kiran_Kumar)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2020, 12:14am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/winrm-connection-error-function-takes-at-most-2-arguments-3-given/33002/1 "2020-05-22T00:14:32Z")
Hi, Goal : Use Linux centos 7.8 server with ansible version 2.9.7 to manage windows 2019 server Error : WINRM CONNECTION ERROR: function takes at most 2 arguments (3 given) ---
**Author:** ![jborean](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/jborean/32/1525_2.png) [@jborean](https://forum.ansible.com/u/jborean)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2020, 12:37am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/winrm-connection-error-function-takes-at-most-2-arguments-3-given/33002/2 "2020-05-22T00:37:40Z")
The issue here is the kerberos library you have installed is either too old or incompatible with what requests-kerberos requires. Uninstall both kerberos and pykerberos and install just pykerberos. You may want to update requests-kerberos as well as 0.7.0 is quite old. ---
**Author:** ![Kiran\_Kumar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f475e1/32.png) [@Kiran\_Kumar](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Kiran_Kumar)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2020, 12:42am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/winrm-connection-error-function-takes-at-most-2-arguments-3-given/33002/3 "2020-05-22T00:42:42Z")
Thanks for the reply You mean : yum remove -y krb5-devel krb5-libs krb5-workstation And re-run **pip install pykerberos** ---
**Author:** ![Kiran\_Kumar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f475e1/32.png) [@Kiran\_Kumar](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Kiran_Kumar)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2020, 12:48am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/winrm-connection-error-function-takes-at-most-2-arguments-3-given/33002/4 "2020-05-22T00:48:50Z")
Shall i do below yum remove python-kerberos-1.1-15.el7.x86\_64 ---
**Author:** ![Kiran\_Kumar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f475e1/32.png) [@Kiran\_Kumar](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Kiran_Kumar)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2020, 12:51am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/winrm-connection-error-function-takes-at-most-2-arguments-3-given/33002/5 "2020-05-22T00:51:29Z")
Anyways i did below 1017 21/05/20 17:47:19 yum remove python-kerberos-1.1-15.el7.x86\_64 1018 21/05/20 17:49:29 rpm -qa|grep -i kerb 1019 21/05/20 17:49:43 pip install pykerberos 1020 21/05/20 17:49:55 pip install requests-kerberos 1021 21/05/20 17:50:05 ansible windows -m win\_ping -vvvvvv 1022 21/05/20 17:50:30 yum install -y python-kerberos 1023 21/05/20 17:50:38 ansible windows -m win\_ping -vvvvvv Still no luck ---
**Author:** ![Kiran\_Kumar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f475e1/32.png) [@Kiran\_Kumar](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Kiran_Kumar)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2020, 2:16am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/winrm-connection-error-function-takes-at-most-2-arguments-3-given/33002/6 "2020-05-22T02:16:38Z")
I used a fresh box & finally did below & wored yum install -y python3-devel pip install pykerberos Thanks @Jordan