Parpool matlabpool permission denied R2014b

Hello -

I am running Matlab R2014b on a Ubuntu machine (14.04 LTS) with 32 cores. Naturally, I want to be able to use all of my cores (which is now allowed on R2014b, thankfully) by implementing a parfor loop in my code. My problem occurs right at the beginning. The error is short and void of details. All it says is:

>> parpool local Error using parpool (line 99) Permission denied

Or, when I just try to run my script (which should automatically start up my workers) it starts using only one worker saying it failed to start parallel computing.

Any ideas? Can't seem to find any documentation on this problem. Thanks in advance.