Setting the execution policy or firewall is unrelated to authentication failures. If you really want to use Basic auth make sure you have run the following to enable it on the WIndows host;
Set-Item -Path WSMan:\localhost\Service\Auth\Basic -Value True You can verify what have been enabled and disabled by running 'winrm get winrm/config/service'. By default Basic auth is not enabled for security reasons. Thanks Jordan -- 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/24869fbc-3b97-4346-8be9-9d3efd34bcc1%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
