Common problems and how to avoid them

SSH not connnecting to blanca-may be one of these causes

You are connected to UCC- Guest Wifi

• Connect to UCCS-Wireless Wifi instead

VPN enabled while in class

• If you have your VPN enabled and you try to access Blanca on campus, you won't be

able to access it, so disable your VPN

Problems with quotation marks

• You are entering a command that involves quotes but it does not work

- Check that you have quotes at the start and end of the string

grep "simple practice

^ missing

Check that the quotes are the same type (single or double)

grep "simple' practice

^ don't match

Make sure you are not using curved quotes

document.

grep "simple" practice

^ Unix does not do curly quotes

that you cut and pasted from a Word