ping windows - ssl: the specified credentials were rejected by the serve

[norricorp]

Hi

I am running ansible 2.1.2.0 on centos7. The windows machine is running windows 10 with powershell 5.

I have installed pywinrm-0.2.2, included windows hostnames in the inventory file and also added group variables to this file for windows.

ansible_user=Administrator
ansible_password=password

ansible_port:=986
ansible_connection=winrm
ansible_winrm_server_cert_validation=ignore

I have also run the powershell script on the windows machine and received OK prompt.

I am doing this outside of a domain. If I ping the windows machine from centos outside of ansible I get replies. But with ansible I get

[root@centos7-ansible ~]# ansible mesh -m win_ping -v
Using /etc/ansible/ansible.cfg as config file
mesh | UNREACHABLE! => {
    "changed": false,
    "msg": "ssl: the specified credentials were rejected by the server",
    "unreachable": true
}

Any ideas what I am doing wrong?

Regards,

John

[johnny.she...@gmail.com]

Hi,

Just a quick suggestion, but the ansible_port you've set is not the default. Have you changed it? If not, it should be 5986 not 986.

Johnny :)

[John Norris]

Thanks for this Johnny.

That was typo in the message.  It was 

ansible_port:5986

and in my hosts file ([windows:vars] I have it as

      ansible_port=5986

but when I edited the copy and paste, I replaced :5 with = rather than just :.

So in summary, the port is right.

[J Hawkesworth]

Is the host 'mesh' a member of a group in your inventory file called 'windows'?

The group needs to exist in your inventory

so assuming you inventory contains

[windows]

mesh

and you group_vars/windows.yml contains the connection parameters listed above?

If it isn't then ansible will assume default connection type, which is ssh.

Hope this helps,

Jon

[John Norris]

I actually put the connection parameters in /etc/ansible/hosts under [windows:vars].

Is that still valid?

[Trond Hindenes]

yes, that's still valid. Here's a valid and working hosts file:

[all]

[all:vars]

ansible_connection=winrm

ansible_port=5986

ansible_winrm_server_cert_validation=ignore

ansible_password=e6PHLue6PHLu

ansible_user=<password>

[windows]

windows1 ansible_host=192.168.99.100

If that's not working its likely an issue on the target server. Have you run the prepare-script?

[John Norris]

Hi Trond,

I got it to work by changing the user from administrator.

Many thanks for helping.

Regards,

john

[Prajawal Sinhaa]

I am facing the same Issue. I am using basic authentication , should I use kerberos auth? I am trying to connect to my organisation's PC.