error creating a directory

[Tony Wong]

---
- name: testing win_get_url
  hosts: all
  tasks:
    - name: Create Directory if not exist
      win_file:
        path: c:\temp
        state: directory

TASK [Create Directory if not exist] ******************************************************************************************************************************************************************************
task path: /home/tony/windows/download.yml:5
Using module file /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/ansible/modules/windows/win_file.ps1
Pipelining is enabled.
<devsp2016> ESTABLISH WINRM CONNECTION FOR USER: adm-tkw@xxxxon PORT 5986 TO devsp2016
EXEC (via pipeline wrapper)
fatal: [devsp2016]: FAILED! => {
    "changed": false,
    "msg": "path c:\\temp is not a directory"

any idea why I cannot create the directory?

[Tej Singh Rana]

You have to use --> path: C:\temp

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[Tony Wong]

is it the Capital C?

just tied and same error

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[OM Nachiketa]

Run the playbook with the administrator access or grant required access to "adm-tkw" to create dir under C:\\.

And as per the example on win_file ansible doc its Temp, not temp.

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[zil...@gmail.com]

Try c:\\temp as path, like this

---
- name: testing win_get_url
  hosts: all
  tasks:
    - name: Create Directory if not exist
      win_file:
        path: c:\\temp
        state: directory

[Rahul Puli]

Can you try the one below?

---
- hosts: all

  tasks:
  - name: Create Directory if not exist
    win_file:
     path: c:\temp
     state: directory

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