Jenkins makes adding slaves really easy. For unix machines, the preferred method is to use SSHD, which only requires that the master be able to contact the slave. On windows, however, you are stuck using a JNLP based solution, which requires that the slave be able to access master over the network.
I got stuck in the awkward situation where I had to add a windows machine to our master, but the slave could not even ping it. This could be resolved by updating our routing tables on the slave side, but unfortunately that wasn’t an option here. Instead I chose to try and start the slave using a Windows SSHD solution.
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