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    Then, the following sequence of commands (as root@ourserver!) will do
    the trick:

	cd /export/root/aclient/some
	ln -s /other/file symlink

    Note that I type "/other/file" when issuing a command on ourserver,
    where the file is actually known as /export/root/aclient/other/file!

I think that is a bug in NFS.  This symbolic link won't work properly
when used locally.

However, I've changed my mind about the specific question of
how to handle

    (make-symbolic-link "/user@host:/name/of/file" "/path/to/target")

There is only one thing it can possibly mean, which is
to link to a file on /user@host:, so I guess it is ok
to imagine that /user@host: is present.