[chef] Re: knife bootstrap windows winrm - timeout.

[Morgan Blackthorne < >]

WinRM seems flaky, and sometimes you need to bounce the service on the windows box for it to respond, I've found.

On Apr 13, 2015 8:24 AM, "Button, Steve" < "> > wrote:

Hi,

I'm trying to install a new client using 

knife bootstrap windows winrm 'server.nightly.bla' -r 'app::base' -x 'administrator’ -P 'xyz'

but the command comes back after a couple of mins with :-

ERROR: No response received from remote node after 1.84 minutes, giving up.

ERROR: RuntimeError: Command execution failed.

I have tried with -VVV and I get 

DEBUG: :session => :init

DEBUG: :relay_to_servers => echo . & echo Response received.

DEBUG: :relayed => server.nightly.bla

DEBUG: server.nightly.bla => :run_command

​Not very helpful. 

I can telnet from my workstation to port 5985.

Searching google for this, there a a couple of pages of people with similar issues, but no solution. 

Is this even the up-to-date way to install chef-client? 

Thanks,

Steve​