I have disabled the firewall. Output from Host machine when running remoting script:
VERBOSE: Verifying WS-MAN VERBOSE: PS remoting is already active and running VERBOSE: SSL-based remoting already active VERBOSE: basic auth already enabled Ok. VERBOSE: PS Remoting successfully setup for AnsibleEnter code here... This is the error on the controller: <10.1.11.40> ESTABLISH CONNECTION FOR USER: root <10.1.11.40> REMOTE_MODULE win_ping <10.1.11.40> EXEC ['ssh', '-C', '-tt', '-vvv', '-o', 'ControlMaster=auto', '-o', 'ControlPersist=60s', '-o', 'ControlPath=/home/avinashs/.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', '10.1.11.40', "/bin/sh -c 'mkdir -p $HOME/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1408690690.7-187551343997386 && echo $HOME/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1408690690.7-187551343997386'"] EXEC previous known host file not found for 10.1.11.40 10.1.11.40 | FAILED => SSH encountered an unknown error. The output was: OpenSSH_6.6.1, OpenSSL 1.0.1f 6 Jan 2014 debug1: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh/ssh_config debug1: /etc/ssh/ssh_config line 19: Applying options for * debug1: auto-mux: Trying existing master debug1: Control socket "/home/avinashs/.ansible/cp/ansible-ssh-10.1.11.40-22-root" does not exist debug2: ssh_connect: needpriv 0 debug1: Connecting to 10.1.11.40 [10.1.11.40] port 22. debug2: fd 3 setting O_NONBLOCK debug1: connect to address 10.1.11.40 port 22: Connection refused ssh: connect to host 10.1.11.40 port 22: Connection refused On Thursday, 21 August 2014 21:01:37 UTC+2, Paul Durivage wrote: > > You said you're getting a connection refused, so check the firewall and > winrm settings on the Windows machine. > > There's an example script ( > https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/devel/examples/scripts/ConfigureRemotingForAnsible.ps1) > > that takes care of WinRM making sure the box allows remote powershell exec, > among other things. Likely you're missing a step preparing the Windows > machine to accept remote winrm connections. > > > > > > On Thu, Aug 21, 2014 at 1:29 PM, Avinash Singh <[email protected] > <javascript:>> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I have installed ansible on my linux controller, however I am unable to >> win_ping my windows host machine. >> The controller and host are virtual machines hosted on my physical >> machine. >> >> I am able to ping each machine in both directions from cmd prompt and the >> terminal, to verify that the machines can see each other. >> >> I have followed all the steps from here : >> http://docs.ansible.com/intro_windows.html >> >> When running the command below I get a connection refused. >> >> ansible windows -i /etc/anisible/hosts -m win_ping --ask-vault-pass -vvvv >> >> I have also tried using a playbook. However I get some cows :) and >> connection could be established. >> >> ansible-playbook site.yml >> >> with the following site.xml contents: >> --- >> -host: windows >> remote_user: Administrator >> vars: >> >> ansible_ssh_user: Administrator >> ansible_ssh_pass: test >> ansible_ssh_port: 5986 >> ansible_connection: winrm >> >> tasks: >> - action: win_ping >> >> Is there something that I am missing? >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Ansible Project" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected] <javascript:>. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected] >> <javascript:>. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/3f8137c9-082d-4591-be0f-9889847b78b5%40googlegroups.com >> >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/3f8137c9-082d-4591-be0f-9889847b78b5%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ansible Project" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/180b1050-0458-4775-a4a5-df827279834f%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
