MATLAB: Am I unable to use CD with a symbolic link which points to a NFS mounted directory in MATLAB 7.0 (R14) on the Linux machine

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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

Best Answer

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 ''
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