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: 
You might be able to use the sshfs utility to do what you want to do. This will let you mount a filesystem on a remote computer, on your local one. Here's a reference to how to do this:
<https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-use-sshfs-to-mount-remote-file-systems-over-ssh>
sounds like what you really want is a hard link. its another pointer to the same data in the filesystem, so to really delete that file and free up that disk space, you have to delete all hard links to it. 

some scripts and tools can get confused by them.