facing the problem in mapping network drive

[mahesh g o]

Hi ,

help is appreciated

playbook:mount.yml

- hosts: localhost

  gather_facts: false

  vars_files:

    - /etc/ansible/group_vars/host_vars

  tasks:

    - name: create a mapped drive under Z

      win_mapped_drive:

        letter: Z

        path: \\10.237.163.116\test

        username: test

        password: Password123

host_vars:

windows machine details:

ip: "10.234.224.199"

username: "Administrator"

password: "netapp"

ansible_connection: "winrm"

ansible_winrm_server_cert_validation: "ignore"

i am getting below error when run the playbook:

fatal: [localhost]: UNREACHABLE! => {"changed": false, "msg": "ssl: auth method ssl requires a username", "unreachable": true}

[Luca 'remix_tj' Lorenzetto]

Hello,

On Thu, May 14, 2020 at 12:49 PM mahesh g o <mahe...@gmail.com> wrote:
> i am getting below error when run the playbook:
> fatal: [localhost]: UNREACHABLE! => {"changed": false, "msg": "ssl: auth method ssl requires a username", "unreachable": true}
>

are you setting (or asking) username somewhere? Because you specified
username and password, which are not the variables used by ansible
(ansible_user, ansible_pass).

Luca

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[mahesh g o]

I am setting the username and password: 

i have a volume name "test" in my storage box and i want to map it windows machine:

details in host_vars are my machine details:

volume details:

letter: Z

        path: \\10.237.163.116\test

        username: test

        password: Password123

i am expecting the playbook use host_vars file to login to windows machine and mount the volume in z drive.

[Jordan Borean]

The error you have is nothing to do with mapped drives but that Ansible is unable to authenticate itself over the WinRM connection. YOu need to set ansible_user and ansible_password for Ansible to use as the connection credentials.

Also please note that while you can map a network drive using win_mapped_drive in Ansible, you cannot use that mapped drive in Ansible tasks. That mapping is just for interactive logons. If you want to access files from a network path in Ansible you need to use the UNC path and potentially use become to add outbound creds to your process. We have an example of that here https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/user_guide/become.html#become-flags-for-windows.

[mahesh g o]

Thanks Jordan,

I used become in my playbook.

- hosts: [win]

  gather_facts: false

  tasks:

    - name: create a mapped drive

      win_mapped_drive:

       state: present

       letter: D

       path: \\10.237.163.116\test

  vars:

    # become is required to save and retrieve the credentials in the tasks

      ansible_become: yes

      ansible_become_method: runas

      ansible_become_user: test

      ansible_become_pass: password@123

      ansible_become_flags: logon_type=new_credentials logon_flags=netcredentials_only

Playbook is running without any errors.

But i am not seeing the network drive in my windows OS.

net use:

Unavailable  T:        \\10.237.163.116\test     Microsoft Windows Network

what is that i am missing here. what is the solution to map the network drive.

[Jordan Borean]

So the drive mapping is present but Windows is unable to map the drive on logon. You can use the win_credential [1] to store a credential that Windows will use for mapped drives. There's even an example of this in the win_mapped_drive [2] docs. If you are running the net use command through Ansible and expecting to see that mapped drive available then you are out of luck. Mapped drives are only for use with interactive logons and not for use in Ansible, Ansible can only manage the mappings but not use them.

[1] https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/modules/win_credential_module.html

[2] https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/modules/win_mapped_drive_module.html

[mahesh g o]

Hi Jordan,

 

I tried the below playbook to store the credential that Windows will use for mapped drives. But it is throwing the below error :

- hosts: [win]
  gather_facts: false
  tasks:

    - name: Save the network credentials required for the mapped drive
      win_credential:
        name: 10.224.233.199  -----> windows machine IP
        type: domain_password
        state: present
        #persistence: local
        #secret_format: text
        #update_secret: always
        username: Administrator-----> windows machine username
        secret: opteamix------> windows machine password
      become: yes
      become_method: runas

  vars:
    # become is required to save and retrieve the credentials in the tasks

        ansible_become_user:  apple ----- username of the drive to be mapped.
        ansible_become_pass: barharbour -----password  of the drive to be mapped.
        ansible_become_flags: logon_type=new_credentials logon_flags=netcredentials_only

fatal: [10.234.224.199]: FAILED! => {
    "changed": false,
    "msg": "Unhandled exception while executing module: Exception calling \"GetCredential\" with \"2\" argument(s): \"Failed to access the user's credential store, run the module with become\""

Thanks,

Mahesh

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[David Foley]

Hi,

It may be easier to use PowerShell within an Ansible caller.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/microsoft.powershell.management/new-psdrive?view=powershell-7