Question: I have two servers, A and B

A has two filesystems, /alpha and /beta

I have a symbolic link:

```
ln -s /alpha/foo /beta/bar

```

Such that:

```
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root    root           70 Dec 22 13:32 /beta/bar -> /alpha/foo

```

Next, I mount /beta, remotely on B via an NFS mount

The link no longer works.

Is there a way to achieve this. I'd like to be able to access A:/alpha/foo on server B, but I want to be able to do it via the /beta/bar symbolic link.

Do I need to modify my mount, or my link? Or am I trying to achieve the impossible?

**UPDATE**

I should have added: 'without mounting /alpha to server B'. 
In short, I would like the symbolic link to be followed to the *actual* file in question whenever server B accesses /beta/bar

Answer: 
soft symbol link's content is a path string, it doesn't know anything about how you mount filesystems. In your case, you can mount /alpha and /beta on B with sample path of A. But strongly suggest don't cross link between network system, that's hard to maintain.
You will need to mount `/alpha` in your machine in order to have the link to work.