I can't get conclusive evidence that his is even possilble (but can't get anything saying its not). I have a symlink in a shared directory in server a. this is a dir symlink to a shared folder in server b. Everything is fine on server a, but. When we access the share and then the symlink on server A from any mahince, we get the dreaded "The symbolic link cannot be followed because its type is disabled." we have done the fsutil steps to set full evaluation on symlinks on all machines in this mix, but still get this message. Is this by design or is there a bug somewhere?

As far as I know this works like a charm on 7! The only thing really needed is indeed the fsutil behavior set SymlinkEvaluation R2L:1 R2R:1 (L2L:1 L2R:1 can be added optionally to enable all behaviours) on the machine hosting the link (server a) http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc785435(WS.10).aspx MCP/MCSA/MCTS/MCITP

No Joy again. Tried that a few times on several different machines. This is all 2K8 R2.