OPS335 Weekly Schedule

The course schedule, labs, and links are subject to change.
Check with your professor for details and changes specific to your section.

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Week	Objectives and Tasks	Assigned Reading	Labs / Exercises
Week 1 07 Jan - 10 Jan	Introduction to OPS335 outline, policies, assignments, labs, midterm test, quizzes, exam, email Fedora Project Overview Note: No class on Monday	Chapter One - Where to Start Fedora 20 Installation Guide Installation Quick Start Partitioning for Fedora	Lab 0 Fedora Installation
Week 2 13 Jan - 17 Jan	Basic Networking ifconfig, aliasing, route, iptables, ping, configuring a gateway, ip forwarding, masquerading, interface aliasing Assignment 1 Part 1 Released	Chapter 14 - TCP/IP Networking Fedora Systemd Documentation	Lab 1 Configuring a Gateway
Week 3 20 Jan - 24 jan	Packet Filtering iptables Assignment 1 Part 1 Due at 1700 Friday January 24th	Chapter 22 - Security Firewalld documentation Firewalld rich rules	Lab 2 Packet Filtering
Week 4 27 Jan - 31 Jan	DNS nslookup, dig, host, /etc/resolv.conf, /etc/hosts, /etc/named.conf BIND and DNS notes Assignment 1 Part 2 Released	Chapter 17 - DNS: The Domain Name System	Lab 3 DNS Setup
Week 5 03 Feb - 07 Feb	Backup/Restore tar, cpio, dump/restore, wget, netcat, ssh, scp, rsync, cron, at	Chapter 10 - Backups	Lab 4 Automating Backups
Week 6 10 Feb - 14 Feb	Midterm Test (in lecture period).
Week 7 17 Feb - 21 Feb	Mail postfix, smtp, imap, pop, mailx Assignment 1 Part 2 due at 1700, Friday February 21st.	Chapter 20 - Electronic Mail	Lab 5 Postfix Mail Configuration
Study Week
Week 8 03 Mar - 07 Mar	Web Servers Apache installation and configuration	Chapter 23 - Web Hosting	Lab 6 Apache Install/Config
Week 9 10 Mar - 14 Mar	SAMBA smbclient, smbmount (mount -t cifs), smbpasswd, smb.conf	Chapter 30 - Cooperating with Windows	Lab 7 Samba Servers and Clients
Week 10 17 Mar - 21 Mar	NFS with Automount exportfs, showmount, /etc/exports,autofs, auto.master Assignment #2 Released	Chapter 18 - The Network File System	Lab 8 NFS Setup
Week 11 24 Mar - 28 Mar	NIS ypserv, ypbind, ypcat	Chapter 19 - Sharing System Files	Lab 9 NIS Configuration
Week 12 31 Mar - 04 Apr	FTP Server Assignment #2 due at 1700, Friday April 4th.	vsftpd (ftp server) project web site /etc/vsftpd/vsftpd.conf configuration file vsftpd FAQ Tutorial on ftp commands	Lab 10 VSFTP Server Setup Assignment #2 Due
Week 13 07 Apr - 10 Apr	Exam Review No class on Friday (Due to the early exam week).		Outstanding Labs
Exam Week