Issue when trying to communicate between ansible and windows client

Question

Here is the error: [WARNING]: ERROR DURING WINRM SEND INPUT - attempting to recover: WinRMError The pipe has been ended.

'wsmanfault_code': '109', 'fault_code': 's:Receiver', 'fault_subcode': 'w:InternalError'}) fatal FAILED! => {"msg": "winrm send_input failed; \nstdout: \nstderr "}

Winrm service up and running, listeners configured properly but still this error exists when using transport 5985 and ntlm.

Answer 1

WINRM is a Windows (not PowerShell) service. PowerShell makes use of it, though.

Have you configured WINRM to allow the use of NTLM authentication?

You can check it like this:

winrm get winrm/config/service/auth

The result should look like this (NTLM isn't allowed on this machine):

Auth
    Basic = false
    Kerberos = true
    Negotiate = true
    Certificate = false
    CredSSP = false
    CbtHardeningLevel = Relaxed

You can set it like this:

winrm set winrm/config/service/auth @{NTLM="true"}

Also, NTLM has multiple versions. What version are you trying to use? I'm pretty sure that the original LM version is disabled and only NTLMV2 is allow. You can change that using a local security polity or by editing the registry directly.