Just tried pywinrm 0.2rc6. Both ansible_winrm_transport=ntlm 
and ansible_winrm_transport=kerberos work fine. Thanks!

Running on RHEL7 with Ansible 2.0.2.

On Tuesday, May 10, 2016 at 12:33:33 AM UTC+2, Matt Davis wrote:
>
> A new pywinrm release that supports NTLM, kerberos delegation, and much 
> improved performance is just around the corner! Version 0.2.0 is at release 
> candidate, and a test build has been published to testpypi. Just waiting 
> for any final testing/review from Alexey before the final publish of the 
> release build to PyPI. 
>
>
> Feel like giving it a whirl?
>
>
> pip install pywinrm[kerberos]==0.2rc3 -i https://testpypi.python.org/pypi 
> --extra-index-url https://pypi.python.org/pypi
>
>
> will get you the RC3 test build from testpypi (along with the released 
> dependencies from the real pypi), and the optional kerberos dependencies. 
> If you don't want kerberos, just get rid of the [kerberos] extras part in 
> the pkgspec above.
>
>
> This pywinrm build has been tested with Ansible 1.9.5, 2.0.2 and 2.1RC1.
>
>
> Once you have it installed, ansible_winrm_transport=ntlm in your 
> inventory for Windows hosts (sorry, this one only works for Ansible 2.0+) 
> lets you use domain users with both domain\username and [email protected] 
> <javascript:> syntax. When using ansible_winrm_transport=kerberos, 
> kerberos delegation support can be enabled just by adding 
> ansible_winrm_kerberos_delegation=yes. 
>
>
> We've added a few new niceties around arg parsing in Ansible 2.1, like 
> warnings if you pass inventory args that your installed version of pywinrm 
> doesn't understand (and not requiring things like username when not 
> required) but otherwise, most of the goodies in here should work on older 
> versions of Ansible too.
>
>
> This release of pywinrm has switched the HTTP(S) client from urllib2 to 
> requests, allowing us to take advantage of persistent connections, which 
> give another significant performance boost to Windows on Ansible 
> (especially over HTTPS, as we don't have to repeat the TLS handshake for 
> each WinRM request). In my testing, local VMs experienced about a 20% speed 
> boost on small tasks, while remote VMs (eg, AWS instances) got more like a 
> 50% speed boost to small tasks (due to the higher latency cost during 
> connection setup). File transfer performance (eg, win_copy) should also be 
> noticeably improved again with this release, though I haven't benchmarked 
> it.
>
>
> Feel free to file issues at https://github.com/diyan/pywinrm/issues.
>
>
> Enjoy!
>
>
> Matt Davis
>
> Principal Software Engineer (Ansible Core Windows)
>
> Red Hat
>

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