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>
You will need to mount `/alpha` in your machine in order to have the link to work.