I did some changes and it worked. But, the whole directory is getting 
created on the linux machine which has the desired file. 


On Tuesday, April 26, 2016 at 9:34:12 AM UTC+5:30, Mick st john wrote:
>
> I tried the following playbook:
>
> --- 
> - hosts: windows
>   tasks:
>      - name: copy file
>        fetch: src=\path\to\file\on\windows\machine 
> dest=/destination/directory
>
> But, somehow it failed. Am I doing it the wrong way?
>
> On Monday, April 25, 2016 at 8:24:58 PM UTC+5:30, J Hawkesworth wrote:
>>
>> Fetch can also fetch from windows machines back to your ansible 
>> controller machine.
>>
>> If you are fetching from > 1 windows box don't forget to fetch to a 
>> directory, or use something like {{ inventory_hostname_short }} when 
>> generating the file name.
>>
>> Hope this helps,
>>
>> Jon
>>
>>
>> On Monday, April 25, 2016 at 3:06:04 PM UTC+1, Mick st john wrote:
>>>
>>> I trying to copy files from a remote windows machine to my local 
>>> machine(linux machine) using ansible. As fetch module works for linux to 
>>> linux file transfer, is there anything similar that could enable me to 
>>> fetch files from windows machine to linux machine?
>>>
>>

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