Ansible not installing msi through shared drive

[smart aquarius]

Team,

My ansible version is 2.9.1. Here I'm trying to install a msi, placed in a shared drive, on windows 10 VDI. 

These are 2 play books I've tried 

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- name: Install Monitoring Service for VDI

  hosts: all

  tasks:

    - name: Maping Network Drive

      win_command: net use "Z:" "\\xxxx\tttt\ppp" /user:domain\user "pass"

    - name: Directory

      win_command: net use

    - name: Install MSI

      win_package:

        path:  \\xxxx\tttt\ppp\Application.msi

        state: present

    - name: Unmap drive

      win_command: net use "Z:" /delete

In this case I get this error at msi installation stage

The full traceback is:

Access is denied

At line:196 char:27

+ ...        $valid_path = Test-Path -LiteralPath $test_path -PathType Leaf

+                          ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

    + CategoryInfo          : PermissionDenied: (\\xxxx\tt...pp\Application.msi:String) [Test-Path], UnauthorizedAccessException

    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : ItemExistsUnauthorizedAccessError,Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.TestPathCommand

ScriptStackTrace:

at Get-ProgramMetadata, <No file>: line 196

at <ScriptBlock>, <No file>: line 301

System.UnauthorizedAccessException: Access is denied ---> System.ComponentModel.Win32Exception: Access is denied

   --- End of inner exception stack trace ---

   at Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.FileSystemProvider.ItemExists(String path, ErrorRecord& error)

fatal: [IP address]: FAILED! => {

    "changed": false,

    "msg": "Unhandled exception while executing module: Access is denied"

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In 2nd Playbook I have changed the msi path to local drive like this

  - name: Install MSI

      win_package:

        path:  Z:\\Application.msi

        state: present

And the error I get

fatal: [IP address]: FAILED! => {

    "changed": false,

    "msg": "the file at the local path Z:\\\\Application.msi cannot be reached",

    "reboot_required": false

}

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In both the cases, after running the playbook, the output of the 2nd command

      name: Directory

      win_command: net use

  "New connections will be remembered.",

        "",

        "",

        "Status       Local     Remote                    Network",

        "",

        "-------------------------------------------------------------------------------",

        "Unavailable  Z:         \\xxxx\tttt\ppp ",

        "                                                Microsoft Windows Network",

        "The command completed successfully.",

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The authentication I'm using is ntlm and in my organization only ntlm and kerberos is allowed.

Any suggestions here. Can anyone suggest a way to install this msi. I've tried to install msi using manual steps in which:

1. Created Enter-PsSession with windows 10 workstation remotely

2. mapped the shared drive using net use command

3. Installed using msiexec command

This is working. Then why it is not working with ansible because Enter-PsSession also use winrm. Please help!!

Thank you

 

[jbor...@gmail.com]

A few things

• Each task is run in a completely separate shell from each other, running net use in a previous task won't have any affect on any subsequent tasks
• Don't try to use mapped drives with Ansible, or really any other non-interactive purpose
  • Mapped drives are really only useful for interactive logons, they don't play well for anything else

If you are trying to access an msi from a network path the method we recommend is to use become like so

- name: Install MSI
  win_package:
    path: \\xxxx\tttt\ppp\Application.msi
    state: present

  become: yes
  become_method: runas
  become_flags: logon_type=new_credentials logon_flags=netcredentials_only
  vars:
    ansible_become_user: domain\user
    ansible_become_pass: pass

We cover more about become and WIndows at https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/user_guide/become.html#become-and-windows but what that task basically does is to run your installer using the connection user but any outbound network attempts will use those credentials, just like net use would do.