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 03 Sep - 06 Sep	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 09 Sep - 13 Sep	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 16 Sep - 20 Sep	Packet Filtering iptables	Chapter 22 - Security	Lab 2 Packet Filtering
Week 4 23 Sep - 27 Sep	DNS nslookup, dig, host, /etc/resolv.conf, /etc/hosts, /etc/named.conf BIND and DNS notes	Chapter 17 - DNS: The Domain Name System	Lab 3 DNS Setup
Week 5 30 Sep - 04 Oct	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 07 Oct - 11 Oct	Mail postfix, smtp, imap, pop, mailx Assignment #1 due at midnight, Friday October 11th.	Chapter 20 - Electronic Mail	Lab 5 Postfix Mail Configuration Assignment #1 Due
Week 7 15 Oct - 18 Oct	Midterm Test (in lecture period).
Study Week
Week 8 28 Oct - 01 Nov	Web Servers Apache installation and configuration	Chapter 23 - Web Hosting	Lab 6 Apache Install/Config
Week 9 04 Nov - 08 Nov	NFS with Automount exportfs, showmount, /etc/exports,autofs, auto.master	Chapter 18 - The Network File System	Lab 7 NFS Setup
Week 10 11 Nov - 15 Nov	NIS ypserv, ypbind, ypcat Assignment #2 Released	Chapter 19 - Sharing System Files	Lab 8 NIS Configuration
Week 11 18 Nov - 22 Nov	SAMBA smbclient, smbmount (mount -t cifs), smbpasswd, smb.conf	Chapter 30 - Cooperating with Windows	Lab 9 Samba Servers and Clients
Week 12 25 Nov - 29 Nov	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 02 Dec - 06 Dec	Exam Review Assignment #2 due		Assignment #2 Outstanding Labs
Exam Week