Credentials getting rejected - packer with ansible on windows AMI

Packer
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HI All,

I have been using the Packer pipeline to create a customized windows AMI from Amazon’s AMI as source. using amzon-ebs provider.
Letting packer to create a temporary key pair,
and using Administrator as the user and Auto generated password “{{.WinRMPassword}}” for rest of the packer pipeline.

after instance creation we are using ansible playbook to apply a full set of customization,
in the recent times , we see that
"Credentials rejected " message while playbook execution.

after multiple trials , 4 to 6 times of retires.
credentials are accepted and playbook is getting executed.

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Hi Team,

I have not herd back on this , can somebody help me with this reqeust

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The only thing that came to mind for me what that you were populating a variable when you login to see if it worked, then it uses that to work after that. wierd one.

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Depending on what kind machine is building and how busy things are the time to get a wimrn server up might change. Could also be that you downsized the image and things are slightly slower.

Did you try to make the pause_before_connecting option longer ?

This should wait a little more and prevent this error.

Another thing you can do is have a provisioner that does nothing but retry a NOOP.