Lakewright solutions / brief
Inventory a corporate file share (SMB/NFS) into Apache Iceberg
A departmental file server — years of Excel dumps, CSV exports, PDFs, and vendor drops on an SMB or NFS share — becomes a complete, audited inventory in an afternoon: every feed identified, schemas profiled, PII flagged, and the valuable tables landed in Iceberg.
How do consultants use this?
As the engagement itself: the scan report IS the data-stack assessment deliverable — what exists, what it is, what's sensitive, what's duplicated, what's worth landing. Then the client keeps the tool running on what you found.
How are shares accessed?
Via the OS mount (the layer that already does Kerberos/NTLM auth and reconnects properly): mount -t cifs //server/share /mnt/x -o ro or mount_smbfs on macOS, then lakewright scan /mnt/x. Read-only mounts are respected — the scan never writes to the source.
The steps
mount -t cifs //fileserver01/finance /mnt/finance -o ro,user=analyst lakewright scan /mnt/finance # the assessment report lakewright plan /mnt/finance --out plans lakewright approve plans/ap_invoices.plan.yaml lakewright load plans/ap_invoices.plan.yaml --rest $CATALOG