Windows Host Issue: Consider changing the remote tmp path in ansible.cfg to a path rooted in

[Mohammed Alnajdi]

Greeting Guys,

I am using Ansible 2.9.6 from a Debian machine and i am trying to run the ping_win module
on a windows target host but i am presented with this error.

"""
 "msg": "Authentication or permission failure. In some cases, you may have been able to authenticate and did not have permissions on the target directory. Consider changing the remote tmp path in ansible.cfg to a path rooted in \"/tmp\". Failed command was: ( umask 77 && mkdir -p \"` echo /tmp/.ansible-abc/ansible-tmp-1608935561.4827693-223757110227446 `\" && echo ansible-tmp-1608935561.4827693-223757110227446=\"` echo /tmp/.ansible-abc/ansible-tmp-1608935561.4827693-223757110227446 `\" ), exited
with result 1",
    "unreachable": true
}
"""

Even thought i am able to ssh to the windows host fine by running
`ssh <ip-of-the-server>`

Any help is appreciated.

[John Veliss]

What authentication are you using?

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[Mohammed Alnajdi]

I am using password authentication https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/user_guide/windows_setup.html#win32-openssh-authentication

[John Veliss]

Does it work if you use ntml or kerberos auth

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[Mohammed Alnajdi]

i am using openssh not winrm. I am not sure if i can use NTLM or kerberos with openssh.

[Mohammed Alnajdi]

Okay following the Microsoft official openssh docs on how to install it made it work for me.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/administration/openssh/openssh_install_firstuse