Applies to ONTAP 9 CIFS Microsoft Windows Answer ONTAP does not currently support creating NTFS symbolic links over SMB (e.g. with 'mklink' command) UNIX style symbolic links are supported and can be ...Applies to ONTAP 9 CIFS Microsoft Windows Answer ONTAP does not currently support creating NTFS symbolic links over SMB (e.g. with 'mklink' command) UNIX style symbolic links are supported and can be followed by Windows clients. How to make symbolic links (widelinks) work for CIFS clients on Clustered Data ONTAP Additional Information CONTAP-152541: RFE for ONTAP to support NTFS symbolic links - NetApp Knowledge Base