Thanks, I have tried NTLM and basic, and they both work fine. However, I am 
evaluating this for a 20000+ node enterprise solution, and Kerberos is a 
must-have requirement.

On Tuesday, April 4, 2017 at 7:37:03 PM UTC-5, Jarryd Took wrote:
>
> @william: 
>
> The latest requests-ntlm in combination of Ansible 2.2.0 you can use NTLM 
> against Windows machines. If this floats your boat as an alternative to 
> kerberos tickets.
>
> ansible_connection: winrm
> ansible_winrm_transport: ntlm 
>
>
>
> On Tuesday, April 4, 2017 at 12:27:21 AM UTC+10, William McKenzie wrote:
>>
>> Here's my setup:
>>
>> Ansible Tower 3.1.1, Basic License, using the vagrant box, with some post 
>> provisioning steps to setup krb5 and join the box to my domain.
>>
>> Kerberos configuration is good. I can kinit, klist, etc. etc. from 
>> command line.
>>
>> python winrm is good:
>>
>> vagrant@ansible-tower ~]$ sudo su - awx
>>
>> Last login: Sat Apr  1 23:12:18 JST 2017 on pts/1
>>
>>
>> *Welcome to Ansible Tower!*
>>
>> Log into the web interface here: etc...
>>
>> -bash-4.2$ cat test.py
>>
>> import sys
>>
>> from winrm.protocol import Protocol
>>
>> HYPERV_SERVER = 'https://louis.home.cartewright.com:5986/wsman'
>>
>> class RM():
>>
>>
>>     def __init__(self):
>>
>>        self.win_connect = Protocol(endpoint=HYPERV_SERVER, transport=
>> 'kerberos', server_cert_validation='ignore')
>>
>>
>>     def test(self):
>>
>>        shell_id = self.win_connect.open_shell()
>>
>>        cmd = "dir"
>>
>>        command_id = self.win_connect.run_command(shell_id, cmd)
>>
>>        output,error_value,exit_status = self.win_connect.
>> get_command_output(shell_id, command_id)
>>
>>        self.win_connect.cleanup_command(shell_id, command_id)
>>
>>        self.win_connect.close_shell(shell_id)
>>
>>        print output
>>
>>
>> def main():
>>
>>    rm = RM()
>>
>>    rm.test()
>>
>> if __name__ == '__main__':
>>
>>    main()
>>
>>    sys.exit()
>>
>> -bash-4.2$ python test.py
>>
>> Volume in drive C is SAMSUNG 512GB SSD
>>
>> Volume Serial Number is 2C8F-7BFA
>>
>>
>> Directory of C:\Users\ansible
>>
>>
>> 03/31/2017  11:04 AM    <DIR>          .
>>
>> 03/31/2017  11:04 AM    <DIR>          ..
>>
>> 07/16/2016  06:47 AM    <DIR>          Desktop
>>
>> 03/31/2017  11:04 AM    <DIR>          Documents
>>
>> 07/16/2016  06:47 AM    <DIR>          Downloads
>>
>> 07/16/2016  06:47 AM    <DIR>          Favorites
>>
>> 07/16/2016  06:47 AM    <DIR>          Links
>>
>> 07/16/2016  06:47 AM    <DIR>          Music
>>
>> 07/16/2016  06:47 AM    <DIR>          Pictures
>>
>> 07/16/2016  06:47 AM    <DIR>          Saved Games
>>
>> 07/16/2016  06:47 AM    <DIR>          Videos
>>
>>               0 File(s)              0 bytes
>>
>>              11 Dir(s)  291,787,771,904 bytes free
>>
>>
>> -bash-4.2$ 
>>
>> So now, I manually create some inventory in the default directories/files 
>> for ansible (not Tower). Works perfectly:
>>
>> -bash-4.2$ cat /etc/ansible/group_vars/windows.yml 
>>
>> ansible_connection: winrm
>>
>> ansible_user: [email protected]
>>
>> ansible_password: R1pflash
>>
>> ansible_winrm_server_cert_validation: ignore
>>
>>
>> -bash-4.2$ 
>>
>> -bash-4.2$ ansible windows -m win_ping -v
>>
>> Using /etc/ansible/ansible.cfg as config file
>>
>> louis.home.cartewright.com | SUCCESS => {
>>
>>     "changed": false, 
>>
>>     "ping": "pong"
>>
>> }
>>
>>
>> Now, I create the exact same inventory in tower, exact same credentials (
>> [email protected]) and now matter how I tweak it, always the 
>> same thing:
>>
>> Using /etc/ansible/ansible.cfg as config file SSH password: Using module 
>> file 
>> /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ansible/modules/core/windows/win_ping.ps1 
>> <louis.home.cartewright.com> ESTABLISH WINRM CONNECTION FOR USER: 
>> [email protected] on PORT 5986 TO louis.home.cartewright.com <
>> louis.home.cartewright.com> WINRM CONNECT: transport=kerberos endpoint=
>> https://louis.home.cartewright.com:5986/wsman <louis.home.cartewright.com> 
>> WINRM CONNECTION ERROR: authGSSClientInit() failed: (('Unspecified GSS 
>> failure. Minor code may provide more information', 851968), ("Can't find 
>> client principal [email protected] in cache collection", 
>> -1765328243)) Traceback (most recent call last): File 
>> "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ansible/plugins/connection/winrm.py", 
>> line 154, in _winrm_connect self.shell_id = 
>> protocol.open_shell(codepage=65001) # UTF-8 File 
>> "/var/lib/awx/venv/ansible/lib/python2.7/site-packages/winrm/protocol.py", 
>> line 132, in open_shell res = self.send_message(xmltodict.unparse(req)) 
>> File 
>> "/var/lib/awx/venv/ansible/lib/python2.7/site-packages/winrm/protocol.py", 
>> line 207, in send_message return self.transport.send_message(message) File 
>> "/var/lib/awx/venv/ansible/lib/python2.7/site-packages/winrm/transport.py", 
>> line 181, in send_message prepared_request = 
>> self.session.prepare_request(request) File 
>> "/var/lib/awx/venv/ansible/lib/python2.7/site-packages/requests/sessions.py",
>>  
>> line 394, in prepare_request hooks=merge_hooks(request.hooks, self.hooks), 
>> File 
>> "/var/lib/awx/venv/ansible/lib/python2.7/site-packages/requests/models.py", 
>> line 298, in prepare self.prepare_auth(auth, url) File 
>> "/var/lib/awx/venv/ansible/lib/python2.7/site-packages/requests/models.py", 
>> line 500, in prepare_auth r = auth(self) File 
>> "/var/lib/awx/venv/ansible/lib/python2.7/site-packages/requests_kerberos/kerberos_.py",
>>  
>> line 308, in __call__ auth_header = self.generate_request_header(None, 
>> host, is_preemptive=True) File 
>> "/var/lib/awx/venv/ansible/lib/python2.7/site-packages/requests_kerberos/kerberos_.py",
>>  
>> line 148, in generate_request_header raise KerberosExchangeError("%s 
>> failed: %s" % (kerb_stage, str(error.args))) KerberosExchangeError: 
>> authGSSClientInit() failed: (('Unspecified GSS failure. Minor code may 
>> provide more information', 851968), ("Can't find client principal 
>> [email protected] in cache collection", -1765328243)) <
>> louis.home.cartewright.com> WINRM CONNECT: transport=ssl endpoint=
>> https://louis.home.cartewright.com:5986/wsman <louis.home.cartewright.com> 
>> WINRM CONNECTION ERROR: the specified credentials were rejected by the 
>> server Traceback (most recent call last): File 
>> "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ansible/plugins/connection/winrm.py", 
>> line 154, in _winrm_connect self.shell_id = 
>> protocol.open_shell(codepage=65001) # UTF-8 File 
>> "/var/lib/awx/venv/ansible/lib/python2.7/site-packages/winrm/protocol.py", 
>> line 132, in open_shell res = self.send_message(xmltodict.unparse(req)) 
>> File 
>> "/var/lib/awx/venv/ansible/lib/python2.7/site-packages/winrm/protocol.py", 
>> line 207, in send_message return self.transport.send_message(message) File 
>> "/var/lib/awx/venv/ansible/lib/python2.7/site-packages/winrm/transport.py", 
>> line 190, in send_message raise InvalidCredentialsError("the specified 
>> credentials were rejected by the server") InvalidCredentialsError: the 
>> specified credentials were rejected by the server 
>> louis.home.cartewright.com | UNREACHABLE! => { "changed": false, "msg": 
>> "kerberos: authGSSClientInit() failed: (('Unspecified GSS failure. Minor 
>> code may provide more information', 851968), (\"Can't find client principal 
>> [email protected] in cache collection\", -1765328243)), ssl: 
>> the specified credentials were rejected by the server", "unreachable": true 
>> } 
>>
>>
>> Just completely unable to find the credentials in the cache, no matter 
>> how I do it. I've put the password in the tower credentials, in the 
>> inventory, using ASK, no matter what I do, it cannot find credentials.
>>
>> What am I missing?
>>
>> ~Bill 
>>
>

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