Solved Salt - Can't Connect to Minions After Adding Them to Master

[wrx7m]

I am able to add the minions and accept the key on the master. If I try to run any commands against my Windows servers, I get a time out. For instance

salt FP01.domain.local test.ping
FP01.ava.local:
    Minion did not return. [No response]
ERROR: Minions returned with non-zero exit code

However, it works on some windows desktops I am testing.

The salt service is running and I have disabled the Windows firewall and the AV and it still won't work. Where should I go from here?

[black3dynamite]

I sometimes have to add --timeout 60 so I can see a response
salt FP01.domain.local test.ping --timeout 60

[wrx7m]

@black3dynamite OK. I will try that. I also had a weird thing where I disabled the Windows firewall on a Server 2016 VM and it started working. I re-enabled the firewall, and it continued to work. I restarted the salt minion service and then it stopped responding to the ping.

Server 2012 R2, disabled firewall and restarted salt minion service. No response.

[wrx7m]

@black3dynamite said in Salt - Can't Connect to Minions After Adding Them to Master:

I sometimes have to add --timeout 60 so I can see a response
salt FP01.domain.local test.ping --timeout 60

Seems to be working. I think that it was the firewall needing the exception AND using the

--timeout 60

Thanks!