molecule- windows NTLM url has a invalid label

[smogsy]

Hi i'm stuck with this issue on converge tried various method but would like some ideas on whsat to try next

fatal: [mcwin-cahw54]: UNREACHABLE! => {"changed": false, "msg": "ntlm: URL has an invalid label.", "unreachable": true}
ntlm: URL has an invalid label

• VM gets created by Vmware_guest module through use of a template & works.
• vmware_shell disables windows firewall (for testing) & works

we populate the config & dump the config but when coverge happens which is just running a role it fails with above.
creating the template into a vm & manually logging in via ansible works fine with both winrm & ssh
adding --debug has made no help with why im getting this issue

• name: Populate instance config dict
  set_fact:
  instance_conf_dict: {
  'instance': "{{ instance_info.item.item.name }}",
  'address': "{{ instance_info.instance.ipv4 }}",
  'port': "{{ molecule_yml.driver.winrm_port | default(5986) }}",
  'connection': "{{ molecule_yml.driver.connection | default('winrm') }}",
  'user': "{{ molecule_yml.driver.vm_username }}",
  'password': "{{ molecule_yml.driver.vm_password }}",
  'winrm_transport': "{{ molecule_yml.driver.winrm_transport | default('ntlm') }}",
  'winrm_server_cert_validation': "{{ molecule_yml.driver.winrm_server_cert_validation | default('ignore') }}",
  'instance_os_type': "{{ molecule_yml.driver.instance_os_type }}"
  }
  loop: "{{ server.results }}"
  loop_control:
  loop_var: instance_info
  register: instance_config_dict
  when: server is changed

• name: Converge
  hosts: all
  tasks:

  • name: "Include ansible_role"
    include_role:
    name: "timezone"