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 January 9-13	Introduction to OPS335 outline, policies, assignments, labs, midterm test, quizzes, exam, email Fedora Project Overview	Chapter One - Where to Start Fedora 16 Installation Guide Installation GRUB Boot Loader Partitioning for Fedora	Lab 0 Fedora Installation
Week 2 January 16-20	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 January 23-27	Packet Filtering iptables	Chapter 22 - Security iptables.pdf	Lab 2 Packet Filtering
Week 4 Jan 30 - Feb 3	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 February 6-10	Mail postfix, smtp, imap, pop, mailx Assignment #1 handed out	Chapter 20 - Electronic Mail	Lab 4 Postfix Mail Configuration
Week 6 February 13-17	Web Servers apache installation and configuration Quiz #1 & Review	Chapter 23 - Web Hosting	Lab 5 Apache Install/Config
Week 7 February 20-24	Midterm Test Assignment #1 due AFTER THE BREAK		Assignment #1 Due
Study Week
Week 8 March 5-9	FTP Server	vsftpd (ftp server) project web site /etc/vsftpd/vsftpd.conf configuration file vsftpd FAQ Tutorial on ftp commands	OPS335 Lab 6 VSFTP Server Setup
Week 9 March 12-16	NFS with Automount exportfs, showmount, /etc/exports,autofs, auto.master	Chapter 18 - The Network File System	Lab 7 NFS Setup
Week 10 March 19-23	NIS ypserv, ypbind, ypcat	Chapter 19 - Sharing System Files	Lab 8 NIS Configuration
Week 11 March 26-30	SAMBA smbclient, smbmount (mount -t cifs), smbpasswd, smb.conf	Chapter 30 - Cooperating with Windows	Lab 9 Samba Servers and Clients
Week 12 April 2-6	Backup/Restore tar, cpio, dump/restore, wget, netcat, ssh, scp, rsync, cron, at	Chapter 10 - Backups	Lab 10 Automating Backups
Week 13 April 9-13	Quiz #2 & Review Assignment #2 due		Assignment #2 Outstanding Labs
Exam Week