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

["Fouts, Chris" < >]

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From: Daniel DeLeo 
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Subject: [chef] Re: Can't knife winrm to Windows box?



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


I did this


 
 ~]# nmap -p 5985 mynode.domain.com

Starting Nmap 4.11 ( http://www.insecure.org/nmap/ ;) at 2014-11-12 19:15 EST
Interesting ports on <ip address removed>:
PORT     STATE SERVICE
5985/tcp open  unknown

Nmap finished: 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 0.205 seconds