Connection reset by peer

[skinnedknuckles]

I've been trying to get win_ping to work for weeks now so I'd be so grateful if someone could help identify my problem.

System details

Fedora 20

Ansible ver 1.8

Here are my setup commands (from a clean Fedora install).

sudo yum install gcc

sudo yum install git

sudo yum install python

sudo yum install python-setuptools python-setuptools-devel

sudo yum install python-devel

sudo yum install python2-devel

sudo yum install python-pip

sudo yum install rpm-build

sudo git clone git://github.com/ansible/ansible.git /etc/ansible

The following command never works for me.

cd /etc/ansible

sudo make rpm

sed "s/%VERSION%/1.8/" docs/man/man1/ansible-doc.1.asciidoc.in > docs/man/man1/ansible-doc.1.asciidoc

/bin/sh: docs/man/man1/ansible-doc.1.asciidoc: Permission denied

make: *** [docs/man/man1/ansible-doc.1.asciidoc] Error 1

sudo pip install http://github.com/diyan/pywinrm/archive/master.zip#egg=pywinrm

sudo cp /etc/ansible/lib/ansible/module_utils/powershell.ps1 /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ansible/module_utils

source ./hacking/env-setup

How do I install Python 2.7 without installing Python 3.x?

Are any of my setup commands above redundant or unnecessary?

Here is my inventory

[ansmgr@dhcp1-59-159 ansible]$ cat hosts

[windows]

123.123.123.123

Here I specify that I'm using powershell instead of ssh

[ansmgr@dhcp1-59-159 group_vars]$ cat windows.yml

ansible_ssh_user: ansmgr

ansible_ssh_pass: ansiblepw

ansible_ssh_port: 5986

ansible_connection: winrm

I have installed powershell on my remote node and have run the Trond Hindenes script with "Basic -value $true"

Here is the debug output of my win_ping command.

[ansmgr@dhcp1-59-159 ansible]$ ansible all -i hosts -m win_ping --ask-vault-pass -vvvv

Vault password: 

<123.123.123.123> ESTABLISH WINRM CONNECTION FOR USER: ansmgr on PORT 5986 TO 123.123.123.123

<123.123.123.123> WINRM CONNECT: transport=plaintext endpoint=https://123.123.123.123:5986/wsman

<123.123.123.123> WINRM CONNECTION ERROR: 500 WinRMTransport. [Errno 104] Connection reset by peer

<123.123.123.123> WINRM CONNECT: transport=plaintext endpoint=http://123.123.123.123:5986/wsman

123.123.123.123 | FAILED => Traceback (most recent call last):

  File "/etc/ansible/lib/ansible/runner/__init__.py", line 559, in _executor

    exec_rc = self._executor_internal(host, new_stdin)

  File "/etc/ansible/lib/ansible/runner/__init__.py", line 732, in _executor_internal

    return self._executor_internal_inner(host, self.module_name, self.module_args, inject, port, complex_args=complex_args)

  File "/etc/ansible/lib/ansible/runner/__init__.py", line 895, in _executor_internal_inner

    conn = self.connector.connect(actual_host, actual_port, actual_user, actual_pass, actual_transport, actual_private_key_file)

  File "/etc/ansible/lib/ansible/runner/connection.py", line 44, in connect

    self.active = conn.connect()

  File "/etc/ansible/lib/ansible/runner/connection_plugins/winrm.py", line 132, in connect

    self.protocol = self._winrm_connect()

  File "/etc/ansible/lib/ansible/runner/connection_plugins/winrm.py", line 86, in _winrm_connect

    protocol.send_message('')

  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/winrm/protocol.py", line 173, in send_message

    return self.transport.send_message(message)

  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/winrm/transport.py", line 76, in send_message

    response = urlopen(request, timeout=self.timeout)

  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 127, in urlopen

    return _opener.open(url, data, timeout)

  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 404, in open

    response = self._open(req, data)

  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 422, in _open

    '_open', req)

  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 382, in _call_chain

    result = func(*args)

  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 1216, in http_open

    return self.do_open(httplib.HTTPConnection, req)

  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 1189, in do_open

    r = h.getresponse(buffering=True)

  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/httplib.py", line 1045, in getresponse

    response.begin()

  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/httplib.py", line 409, in begin

    version, status, reason = self._read_status()

  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/httplib.py", line 365, in _read_status

    line = self.fp.readline(_MAXLINE + 1)

  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/socket.py", line 476, in readline

    data = self._sock.recv(self._rbufsize)

error: [Errno 104] Connection reset by peer

[skinnedknuckles]

There must be a problem with my encryption because when I run this line in powershell it works.

winrm set winrm/config/service '@{AllowUnencrypted="true"}'

[skinnedknuckles]

Okay this is fixed.  The values assigned to the variables  "ansible_ssh_user" and "ansible_ssh_pass" must:

1. Exactly match an account on the windows machine with admin privileges (account must exist but need NOT be current active login)
   
2. If you are using SSL and the value of winrm/config/service/AllowUnencrypted is true (this is the default) the values in ansible\group_vars\windows.yml must exactly match the username and password that was submitted to generate the SSL web certificate. 
   

In my case I also had to append the computer name with the port number in the inventory like this

[windows]

ComputerName:5986 

(or 5985 for AllowUnedcrypted="true" type this command in powershell PS C:\winrm set winrm/config/service '@{AllowUnencrypted="true"}'

done.