Authentication-Problem (in some environments?): Potential easy fix

[gearanach]

Hello all,

we have been trying to get the Ansible to execute successfully within our environment. However, despite working WinRM-Listeners, we had not been successful as Ansible kept reporting the credentials were rejected by the server.

The fix was to explicitely state ansible_winrm_transport: ntlm in inventory.ini like so:

ungrouped:
  hosts:
    honeypotCA:
      # Ansible connection parameters
      ansible_connection: winrm
      ansible_port: 5985
      ansible_winrm_server_cert_validation: ignore
      ansible_winrm_operation_timeout_sec: 400
      ansible_winrm_read_timeout_sec: 500
      ansible_winrm_transport: ntlm

Perhaps other people have this same issue and it could be worth including this in the documentation/default inventory.ini?

Kind regards,
Gearanach