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.

OPS335 Resource Page
OPS335 Resources

Week	Objectives and Tasks	Assigned Reading	Labs / Exercises
Week 1 06 May - 10 May	Introduction to OPS335 outline, policies, assignments, labs, midterm test, quizzes, exam, email Fedora Project Overview	Chapter One - Where to Start Fedora 17 Installation Guide Installation GRUB Boot Loader Partitioning for Fedora	Lab 0 Fedora Installation
Week 2 13 May - 17 May	Basic Networking ifconfig, aliasing, route, iptables, ping, configuring a gateway, ip forwarding, masquerading, interface aliasing	Chapter 14 - TCP/IP Networking Fedora Systemd Documentation	Lab 1 Configuring a Gateway
Week 3 20 May - 24 May	Packet Filtering iptables	Chapter 22 - Security	Lab 2 Packet Filtering
Week 4 27 May - 31 May.	DNS nslookup, dig, host, /etc/resolv.conf, /etc/hosts, /etc/named.conf	Chapter 17 - DNS: The Domain Name System	Lab 3 DNS Setup
Week 5 03 Jun. - 07 Jun.	BIND and DNS notes Backup/Restore tar, cpio, dump/restore, wget, netcat, ssh, scp, rsync, cron, at Assignment #1 Released	Chapter 10 - Backups	Lab 4 Automating Backups
Week 6 10 Jun. - 14 Jun.	Mail postfix, smtp, imap, pop, mailx	Chapter 20 - Electronic Mail	Lab 5 Postfix Mail Configuration
Week 7 17 Jun. - 21 Jun.	DNS and Email Midterm Test (During normal lecture period) Assignment #1 is due on Tuesday June 18 for section A at 11:59 p.m. Wednesday June 19 for section B at 11:59 p.m.		Assignment #1 Due
Study Week
Week 8 01 Jul. - 05 Jul.	Web Servers Apache installation and configuration	Chapter 23 - Web Hosting	Lab 6 Apache Install/Config
Week 9 08 Jul. - 12 Jul.	NFS with Automount exportfs, showmount, /etc/exports,autofs, auto.master	Chapter 18 - The Network File System	Lab 7 NFS Setup
Week 10 15 Jul. - 19 Jul.	NIS ypserv, ypbind, ypcat Assignment #2 Released	Chapter 19 - Sharing System Files	Lab 8 NIS Configuration
Week 11 22 Jul. - 26 Jul.	SAMBA smbclient, smbmount (mount -t cifs), smbpasswd, smb.conf	Chapter 30 - Cooperating with Windows	Lab 9 Samba Servers and Clients
Week 12 29 Jul. - 02 Aug.	FTP Server	vsftpd (ftp server) project web site /etc/vsftpd/vsftpd.conf configuration file vsftpd FAQ Tutorial on ftp commands	Lab 10 VSFTP Server Setup
Week 13 05 Aug. - 09 Aug.	Exam Review Assignment #2 is due on Wednesday August 7th at 5 p.m.		Assignment #2 Outstanding Labs
Exam Week