topic Re: SDW 6.2: sdcli/storacl fail to load SnapDriveRes.dll for non domain admin in Data Protection

SDW 6.2: sdcli/storacl fail to load SnapDriveRes.dll for non domain admin

aborzenkov — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 07:14:35 GMT

SDW 6.2 was installed under domain administrator account on 2008 R2. I try to run it using local domain (member of BUILTIN\Administrators) account. GUI works just fine. But CLI fails, both sdcli and storacl:

C:\Users\user3>\temp\storacl_x64\storacl.exe

Create Instance of Loader to load SnapDriveRes.dll failed

C:\Users\user3>

Is it a known issue?

Re: SDW 6.2: sdcli/storacl fail to load SnapDriveRes.dll for non domain admin

vasam — Tue, 11 May 2010 11:47:21 GMT

Looks like "en-US\SnapDriveRes.dll" is missing in the current folder. Tryout extracting the storacl_x64.zip file properly.

Thanks,

Prasad

Re: SDW 6.2: sdcli/storacl fail to load SnapDriveRes.dll for non domain admin

abuchmann — Tue, 11 May 2010 12:53:50 GMT

We had the same problem

You have to run CMD.EXE with administrator privileges (right click --> "Run as administrator"). UAC does prevent you from running cmd as local admin, even if you are loggedwith an administrator.

Re: SDW 6.2: sdcli/storacl fail to load SnapDriveRes.dll for non domain admin

aborzenkov — Tue, 11 May 2010 17:08:49 GMT

I confirm that after disabling UAC it works. By default W2k8 comes with local policies Admin approval for Built-In Administrator = disabled and Run all administrators in Admin Approval = enabled, which explains why it did work for domain admin (I was on domain controller where domain admin == local admin). Changing Behaviour of elevation prompt for administrators to Elevate without prompting does not fix it.

In plain words it means that RBAC with SDW CLI is impossible with UAC enabled. Not nice ...