Install software to Windows machine...

[aaron.t...@total.care]

Thanks for all your help earlier, it was greatly appreciated.

Now I am attempting to automate installation of some software across all my Windows VM's .  I have found some documentation on the web but am still having trouble.  At this point it is getting hung up on the last line.

The playbook looks like this...

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- hosts: Windows

  connection: local

  remote_user: root

  tasks:

    - name: check to see if ClamWin installed

      win-stat: "S:\\ClamWin\"

      register: ClamWin installed

      

    - name:  Install ClamWin

      win_package:

       name=clamwin-0.99.1-setup.exe

       path=S://ClamWin/clamwin-0.99.1-setup.exe

       Arguments="/install /passive /norestart"

Can i get some help with this code????

Basically i have a file on a local shared drive that I want to install on my windows machines.

Thanks.

[Johannes Kastl]

On 31.05.16 22:54 aaron.t...@total.care wrote:

> Basically i have a file on a local shared drive that I want to install on
> my windows machines.

I think I remember reading that in this case you should split the
task: download the file and then install it.

Maybe split the task even further, as connecting to a target via
ansible and then connection to yet another server to get the file
might pose a problem.

So:
Get the file on the controller
Push the file to the target
Install the file.

Just an idea,
Johannes

[Trond Hindenes]

is "S:" a local or mapped drive?

[Johannes Kastl]

On 02.06.16 20:39 Trond Hindenes wrote:
> is "S:" a local or mapped drive?
>

How should I know, it's your machine... ;-)

Just try and log into the machine, copy the file from S:\... to
somewhere on C: (where your user has the rights) and then try to run
your playbook with this path...

Johannes

[gdel...@gmail.com]

Try the below as long as you have your WinRm creds configured correctly within ansible it should use those creds to connect to your Windows hosts. The below register the path of S:\ClaimWin to that variable you can use that later for any purpose you need. It then copies the file locally onto c:/temp/ then installs it once the installs complete it removes it from c:/temp.

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- hosts: Windows

  tasks:

    - name: check to see if ClamWin installed

      win-stat: S:\ClamWin\

      register: ClamWin_installed

    - name: Copy file locally

    - win_copy: src=S:\ClamWin\clamwin-0.99.1-setup.exe dest=c:/temp/clamwin-0.99.1-setup.exe

      

    - name:  Install ClamWin

      win_package:

       name=clamwin-0.99.1-setup.exe

       path=c:/temp/clamwin-0.99.1-setup.exe

       Arguments="/install /passive /norestart"

    - name: Remove local file

    - win_file: path=c:/temp/clamwin-0.99.1-setup.exe state=absent 

[Trond Hindenes]

The reason I'm asking if S is local or shared is that if its a mapped network drive and you're using Kerberos authentication it basically won't work out of the box, because of limitations around double-hop remoting. You can either use trust for delegation, or switch to another (basic or NTLM auth scheme).