IFS Symlink to Windows Share

Hi All,

Trying to find an optimal solution to some directory sharing challenges. I'll start by saying what I am trying to do.

We have a root folder on the IFS that holds all the subfolders for our application.

/app

In there we have some normal IFS folders and then some symlinks to Windows shares that are "found" in QNTC.

For example:
/QNTC/server1/data
becomes
/app/data

The user ID that our main application runs on exists both on the IBMi and also on the Windows domain with matching passwords. So, using the symlinks (or just surfing through QNTC) works just fine for that user and our programs that run under that ID.

My issue comes in that several of our developers have IBMi accounts that are not the same as the Windows network accounts and trying to make them the same, and then keep the passwords in sync, etc. becomes a pain and one that I would like to avoid.

Is there a way to map the drive/create the symlink with a default user?
Or
Perhaps some way to use some sort of guest access through QNTC?
Or
Is there a better way to accomplish the sharing than what I am trying to do (something other than QNTC)

The Windows server is 2019 Server (I did enable SMB1 on it as part of my troubleshooting)
IBMi is @ 7.3

Thanks everyone,
Brian