A drive with the name 'WSMan' does not exist

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Hi
On Ubuntu 20.04 with powershell 7.1, the following command

Set-Item WSMan:\localhost\Client\TrustedHosts -Value $RemoteMachine -force

returns this error

Line |
  59 |  Set-Item WSMan:\localhost\Client\TrustedHosts -Value $RemoteMachine - …
     |  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
     | Cannot find drive. A drive with the name 'WSMan' does not
     | exist.

The value of $RemoteMachine is 10.1.1.50. I don’t have that problem with powershell 5.1 on windows 10.
Any idea about that?

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Mahmood,
Welcome tot he forums.

The error is actually pretty obvious, don’t you think? This provider does not exist. I don’t have experience with PowerShell on Linux but I’d think certain providers are available exclusively on Windows.

To get a list of the available providers you can run

Get-PSProvider
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On windows I get

PS C:\Users\user> Get-PSProvider

Name                 Capabilities                                        Drives                                             
----                 ------------                                        ------                                             
Registry             ShouldProcess, Transactions                         {HKLM, HKCU}                                       
Alias                ShouldProcess                                       {Alias}                                            
Environment          ShouldProcess                                       {Env}                                              
FileSystem           Filter, ShouldProcess, Credentials                  {C, D}                                             
Function             ShouldProcess                                       {Function}                                         
Variable             ShouldProcess                                       {Variable}                                         
VimInventory         None                                                {vis, vi}                                          
VimDatastore         Filter, ShouldProcess                               {vmstores, vmstore}

On linux I get

PS /home/mahmood> Get-PSProvider

Name                 Capabilities                                  Drives
----                 ------------                                  ------
Alias                ShouldProcess                                 {Alias}
Environment          ShouldProcess                                 {Env}
FileSystem           Filter, ShouldProcess, Credentials            {Temp, /}
Function             ShouldProcess                                 {Function}
Variable             ShouldProcess                                 {Variable}

Is there any way to get WSMan on linux by installing modules? Or it is specific for windows?

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Actually I miss the line with the WSMAN provider. On my Windows it looks like this:

Name         Capabilities                        Drives
----         ------------                        ------
WSMan        Credentials                         {WSMan}

Actually I don’t know. You may use remoting to use the wsman provider on the target Windows computer.