The cross module ejb-link syntax cannot be resolved when the jboss.server.temp.dir property uses an inconsistent syntax for the win32 drive spec. For example -Djboss.server.temp.dir=d:/jboss-temp while the java.io.File would return D:jboss-temp as seen in JBWS-182:

2005-04-20 12:46:03,937 DEBUG [org.jboss.deployment.MainDeployer:949] Begin deployment start file:/d:/jboss-temp/deploy/tmp65043ws4ee-simple-client.ear-contents/ws4ee-simple-client.jar

2005-04-20 12:46:03,957 WARN [org.jboss.ejb.EjbUtil:179] Can't locate deploymentInfo for target: file:/D:/jboss-temp/deploy/tmp65043ws4ee-simple-client.ear-contents/ws4ee-simple-client-ejb.jar