Feature Request: WinRM as a backup file transfer option in case smb is disabled

[whytewolf]

Description of Issue/Question

Currently, the WinRM offerings for Saltify and Cloud use SMB to transfer files. It would be good if there were an option to enable WinRM as a fall back option in case SMB is not available on the network. This would allow a wider range of accessibility for the WinRM offerings.

Yes, WinRM is a slower protocol. But some environments do block SMB traffic And this would allow those environments to still use the Saltify and Cloud options.

[whytewolf]

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[arizvisa]

As this feature is scheduled for implementation, another related feature (which likely resulted in this request) would be to support the preflight_cmds against Windows hosts as it's not implemented by salt.utils.deploy_windows.

This way a user can execute commands prior to deploying the minion binary namely to disable to firewall and actually enable SMB via something like: netsh advfirewall firewall set rule name="File and Printer Sharing (SMB-In)" new enable=yes, or Enable-NetFirewallRule -Name "FPS-SMB-In-TCP".

Although you're only copying a file once so performance might not be too important, http://github.com/hashicorp/packer has had issues with winrm file-transfer performance for quite a while and similarly pywinrm has had an issue reported with regards the file copy performance at diyan/pywinrm#77.

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[arizvisa]

This issue should probably be left open as it is being considered.

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Thank you for updating this issue. It is no longer marked as stale.