Well it's not a symlink issue.

It seems like we can no longer share a cifs mount over samba.

/mnt/nmr is a cifs share off a novell server (I think), that require a login. It mounts fine, it just can't be accessed over samba. It's not just a Windows issue, the samba share can't be seen properly in Linux either.

Problem solved.

The fs type was changed from smbfs to cifs a while back because things stopped working (or IT made a change). Changed it back and things are working again. I assume they made another change.