Thank you, incredible helpful. Off to read more about that now.

Also wanted to take the opportunity to thank you, I was reading your
excelelnt article on Windows Mapped drives the other day.
Still some testing to do on that but I may have a question there. If so
shall I put it on this list?

On Mon, 29 Mar 2021 at 00:12, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote:

> The way to reset the connection in Ansible is to run
>
> - meta: reset_connection
>
> This will delete the existing control persist socket so the subsequent
> task will use a new connection.
>
> On Saturday, March 27, 2021 at 10:36:26 AM UTC+10 needabettername wrote:
>
>> My explanation in the first message wasn't great - apologies.
>> Just to be clear...
>>
>> In a playbook...
>>
>>
>>    1. A Tasks changes remote shell on windows system
>>    (ansible_shell_type) from powershell to cmd
>>    Subsequent tasks then run but have the opposite results as if the
>>    shell hasn't been changed
>>    2. win_ping using powershell - success - when it should fail
>>    3. win_ping using cmd shell - failure - when it should work, as we've
>>    changed the shell in 1
>>
>>
>> Just been reading about multiplexing, sounded a likely culprit so I set
>>
>> ansible.cfg
>> [ssh_connection]
>> -o ControlMaster=no
>>
>> But no change, it's still hanging onto it's old shell despite having been
>> changed.
>> Or I'm tired and misreading something
>> On Saturday, 27 March 2021 at 00:06:31 UTC needabettername wrote:
>>
>>> Trying to make a dual boot script and came across these results, the
>>> shell is changed during the playbook but subsequent tasks are somehow using
>>> the old one.
>>>
>>> How can I force a new connection please?
>>>
>>> 1) Change shell to cmd -Success
>>> win_ping using powershell - success
>>> win_ping using cmd - failure
>>>
>>> The reverse is true when changing it back.
>>> I've confimed the shells are changing by normal ssh from CLI
>>>
>>> --Part of Playbook--
>>> ---
>>> - hosts: happy
>>>   gather_facts: no
>>>   ignore_unreachable: true
>>>   ignore_errors: true
>>>   tasks:
>>>     - include_tasks: win_shell_cmd.yml
>>>       vars:
>>>         become: yes
>>>         ansible_connection: ssh
>>>         ansible_shell_type: powershell
>>>         become_method: runas
>>>     - name: win_ping using ansible_shell_type powershell
>>>       win_ping:
>>>       vars:
>>>         become: yes
>>>         ansible_connection: ssh
>>>         ansible_shell_type: powershell
>>>         become_method: runas
>>>     - name: win_ping using ansible_shell_type cmd
>>>       win_ping:
>>>       vars:
>>>         become: yes
>>>         ansible_connection: ssh
>>>         ansible_shell_type: cmd
>>>         become_method: runas
>>>
>>> --- win_shell_cmd.yml ---
>>> - name: set the default shell to cmd
>>>   win_regedit:
>>>     path: HKLM:\SOFTWARE\OpenSSH
>>>     name: DefaultShell
>>>     state: absent
>>>
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