[chef] Installing knife-windows from behind an NTLM firewall

[Ben Sullivan < >]

Hi

I am trying to seed some devops goodness on client site at present.

It's a Microsoft shop.

They have an NTLM proxy.

I have installed chef using the Windows installer on my local dev workstation.

I want to install the knife-windows plugin to start playing with the remote
management stuff over winrm.

After some googling I realised how rubygems doesn't play nicely with NTLM.

This looked like the best option for me:

http://www.stuartellis.eu/articles/installing-ruby/#install-windows

with the slight variation using this command:

copy C:\opscode\chef\embedded\lib\ruby\gems\1.9.1\gems\rubysspi-1.3.1\spar.rb
C:\opscode\chef\embedded\lib\ruby\site_ruby\1.9.1

I retried the gem install command but I get the following error:

C:\opscode>gem install knife-windows
ERROR:  While executing gem ... (Gem::RemoteFetcher::FetchError)
    SocketError: getaddrinfo: This is usually a temporary error during 
hostname
resolution and means that the local server did not receive a response from an
authoritative server. 
(http://rubygems.org/gems/eventmachine-1.0.0.beta.3-x86-mingw32.gem)

I'm a bit stumped to be honest.  Getting chef workstation and clients setup on
Windows infrastructure is quite troublesome.  I think it will get better.  And
to be honest I'm not that up to speed on running Ruby on Windows so I'll try
and hang in there ;-)

Any tips would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

Ben