HOWTOs For Users

Problems?

• How To Report A Problem
• How To Contact Us

Computer / Network Access

• How To Get An Account
• How To Secure Your Home Directory
• How To Change Your Password
• How To Obtain A Network Connection

Physical Access

• Keys and Keyless Entry

Profiles

Read this if you have problems with downloading files, surfing the Internet, assigning the default printer and printing PDF files from Windows workstations.

• How To Reset Your Profile
• How To Keep Your Profile Small

Email

• Email Quick Start/Client Configuration Guide
• How to Set Out of Office/Automatic Replies
• Anti-Phishing Measures
• How Received Email Is Processed
• Email Forwarding
• How To Sort Email Using Address Extensions
• How To Filter Out Spam
• The Departmental Mailing List Hierarchy

Web

• How To Publish Personal Web Content
• How To Password Protect Personal Web Content

Remote Access

• How To Use VPN and ubcprivate WiFi
• How To Use SSH
• X2go
• How To Connect to a Virtual Lab Computer
• How To Tunnel Connections Through SSH
• How To Display X Applications On Windows

Applications

• Table of Available Site-Licensed Software
• How To Prepare PDF From LaTeX
• MATLAB
  • List of Available MATLAB Toolboxes
  • How To Use the MATLAB Compiler
  • Error When Using MATLAB Symbolic Math Toolbox on Linux
• OPNET 9.0 User Variables (Windows)