James Kosin wrote:
There are two types of symbolic links. I believe the directory may need to be a hard symbolic link and not the other flavor.
There is only one type of symbolic link. Hard links are not symbolic links. Every regular file in a unix filesystem is a "hard link" to an inode that contains information about a file. Creating a hard link simply creates a new entry in the filesystem that refers to an existing inode.
Directories can not be hard linked in Linux.