[chef] Re: Can't knife winrm to Windows box?

[Daniel DeLeo < >]

On Wednesday, November 12, 2014 at 4:09 PM, Fouts, Chris wrote:

> I’ve done everything described here. In my case it’s a Windows Server 2012 
> R2 box.
> https://docs.getchef.com/plugin_knife_windows.html
>  
> knife winrm ………….. gives
>  
> 
 
>  ~]# knife winrm "mynode.domain.com (http://mynode.domain.com)" "dir" -m -x 
> Administrator -P myPW -p 5986
> ERROR: Network Error: Connection refused - connect(2) 
> (https://mynode.domain.com:5986)
> Check your knife configuration and network settings
>  
> Any clues? Any more debugging steps I can take?
>  
> Thanks,
> Chris

Connection refused means that either nothing is listening on that port on 
that host, or there is a firewall that makes it look like nothing is 
listening on that port on that host.  

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Daniel DeLeo