# Knife windows winrm question

**URL:** <https://discourse.chef.io/t/knife-windows-winrm-question/14734>\
**Category:** Chef Infra (archive)\
**Created:** [March 14, 2019, 3:47pm UTC](https://discourse.chef.io/t/knife-windows-winrm-question/14734 "2019-03-14T15:47:09Z")\
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**Author:** ![sausen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5f8ce5/32.png) [@sausen](https://discourse.chef.io/u/sausen)\
**Post date:** [March 14, 2019, 3:47pm UTC](https://discourse.chef.io/t/knife-windows-winrm-question/14734/1 "2019-03-14T15:47:09Z")

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Knife windows winrm bootstrap question - What am I missing? I have an AWS Windows 2012 instance with 5985 open. On the windows server I have run the following to allow Winrm:

winrm quickconfig -q

set-item wsman:\localhost\shell\maxmemorypershellmb 1024

set-item wsman:\localhost\MaxTimeoutms 300000

set-item wsman:\localhost\service\allowunencrypted $true

set-item wsman:\localhost\service\auth\basic $true

But when I run knife bootstrap windows winrm IPADDRESS -N ChefWinTest --winrm-user Administrator --winrm-password "PASSWORD" --run-list 'role[system]'  
Get the following;  
Waiting for remote response before bootstrap.#\<Thread:0x00000000078b5b80@/opt/chef-workstation/embedded/lib/ruby/gems/2.5.0/gems/logging-2.2.2/lib/logging/diagnostic\_context.rb:471 run\> terminated with exception (report\_on\_exception is true):  
...........  
ERROR: No response received from remote node after 3.33 minutes, giving up.  
ERROR: Exception: execution expired  
ERROR: HTTPClient::ConnectTimeoutError: execution expired

Any help very much appreciated!!!!

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**Author:** ![uri](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/439d5e/32.png) [@uri](https://discourse.chef.io/u/uri)\
**Post date:** [March 15, 2019, 7:09am UTC](https://discourse.chef.io/t/knife-windows-winrm-question/14734/2 "2019-03-15T07:09:33Z")

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Hi,  
First test connection by using the next command :  
knife wsman test [hostame] -m

it should return : Connected successfully to...

Next test that you can connect and execute remote command, for example :  
winrm HOSTNAME "dir D:" -m -x DOMAIN\user -P 'PASSWORD'

Regards,

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**Author:** ![sausen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5f8ce5/32.png) [@sausen](https://discourse.chef.io/u/sausen)\
**Post date:** [March 15, 2019, 1:19pm UTC](https://discourse.chef.io/t/knife-windows-winrm-question/14734/3 "2019-03-15T13:19:53Z")

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Thanks for looking at this….

I ran the following on target node and was able to bootstrap:

Get-NetFirewallPortFilter | ?{\_.LocalPort -eq 5985 } | Get-NetFirewallRule | ?{ _.Direction -eq "Inbound" -and \_.Profile -eq "Public" -and_ .Action -eq "Allow"} | Set-NetFirewallRule -RemoteAddress "Any"

But wsman test still fails..

knife wsman test ChefWinTest2 -m

WARNING: Failed to connect to ChefWinTest2 at [http://ChefWinTest2:5985/wsman](http://ChefWinTest2:5985/wsman).

ERROR: Failed to connect to 1 nodes.

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