WinRm: remove IPs from listeningOn

• My machine is a Windows 10 Pro x64 @1804 (is not a server, so I posted here and not on ServerFault)
• My final goal is enable this machine to be remote controlled using ansible, but only by a specific LAN address. This question is not about the ip to which I am opened; I ask you how to remove some IPs on which I'm listening on; these IPs are coming from virtual network interfaces like (VmWare + Vbox + Hyper-V)

I enumerated active listeners

winrm enumerate winrm/config/Listener

I got, with other infos, this row:

 ListeningOn = 127.0.0.1, 192.168.1.10, 192.168.56.1, 192.168.203.1, 192.168.231.1, ::1, 2001:0:5ef5:79fd:1c43:1cb1:a8ed:c186, fe80::40:a36c:364a:53df%30, fe80::1c43:1cb1:a8ed:c186%13, fe80::406b:b429:4b90:4acf%36, fe80::84c0:e900:ce4e:dead%35

I would like to remove some IPs, because are transient, due to virtualizations testes

I found another question here on SuperUser, but has no answers: Restrict WinRM communication to specific server

So, the question is: how to remove IPs from ListeningOn ?

Thanks in advance, and feel free to edit question or tags to be more clear.

1 Answer

Run cmd.exe as administrator and try the following command:

WinRM Delete WinRM/Config/Listener?Address=IP:x.x.x.x+Transport=HTTP

You could need to pay attention to the capitalization of words, if it tells you unknow operation.

Hope it can help you.