Why am I unable to use CD with a symbolic link which points to a NFS mounted directory in MATLAB 7.0 (R14) on my Linux machine?

I have created a symbolic link at the root level which points to a NFS mounted drive /cea/dase as follows: job -> /cea/dase/job

I am unable to CD to directories using the symbolic link as follows:

cd /job/cssi/buresi

gives the error

 ??? Error using ==> cd

 Cannot CD to /job/cssi/buresi (Name is nonexistent or not a directory).

Also although I start matlab in a different directory as shown below :

 -bash-2.05b$ pwd

 /job/cssi/buresi

 -bash-2.05b$ matlab -nosplash -nojvm

MATLAB gives a different result for PWD after startup as shown below :

>> pwd

ans = 

 /usr/job/cssi/buresi

Answer 1

[MathWorks Support Team]

This happens because the AUTOMOUNT_MAP environment variable is not set correctly. In order to set this variable correctly, perform the following steps:

To see the value of this variable, start MATLAB with the -n flag as follows :

matlab -n

When starting MATLAB in this manner, you might see the following displayed:

 ->  r   AUTOMOUNT_MAP       = /cea/dase -> /usr

In order to workaround this issue, change this variable as follows :

 setenv AUTOMOUNT_MAP ''