I've set up a new CentOS 7 VM and installed ansible fine and the kerberos components according to this guide https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/intro_windows.html#kerberos
I've done the following: Added the ansible control server Computer account to AD. Added a test windows machine into /etc/ansible/hosts (called wisteria.duck.loc) Created /etc/ansible/group_vars/windows.yml with this text: ansible_user: m...@duck.loc ansible_password: SecretPasswordGoesHere ansible_port: 5986 ansible_connection: winrm # The following is necessary for Python 2.7.9+ (or any older Python that has backported SSLContext, eg, Python 2.7.5 on RHEL7) when using default WinRM self-signed certificates: ansible_winrm_server_cert_validation: ignore Ran kinit and klist and it worked fine. [mark@carnation ansible]$ ansible --version ansible 2.2.1.0 config file = /etc/ansible/ansible.cfg configured module search path = Default w/o overrides [mark@carnation ansible]$ ansible windows -m win_ping wisteria.duck.loc | UNREACHABLE! => { "changed": false, "msg": "kerberos: HTTPSConnectionPool(host='wisteria.duck.loc', port=5986): Max retries exceeded with url: /wsman (Caused by NewConnectionError('<requests.packages.urllib3.connection.VerifiedHTTPSConnection object at 0x27b8510>: Failed to establish a new connection: [Errno 111] Connection refused',)), ssl: HTTPSConnectionPool(host='wisteria.duck.loc', port=5986): Max retries exceeded with url: /wsman (Caused by NewConnectionError('<requests.packages.urllib3.connection.VerifiedHTTPSConnection object at 0x285d750>: Failed to establish a new connection: [Errno 111] Connection refused',))", "unreachable": true } [mark@carnation ansible]$ Any ideas on next steps to troubleshoot? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ansible Project" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to ansible-project+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to ansible-project@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/7eebf19c-10de-4700-9f0c-6891a037afcd%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.