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.

Lab Submissions should be sent with the subject line OPS335y-LabX.
Replace y with your section letter and X with the lab number.

Week	Objectives and Tasks	Assigned Reading	Labs / Exercises
Week 1 September 5-9	Introduction to OPS335 outline, policies, assignments, labs, midterm test, quizzes, exam, email Fedora Project Overview	Chapter One - Where to Start Fedora 13 Installation Guide Installation GRUB Boot Loader Partitioning for Fedora	Lab 0 Fedora Installation
Week 2 September 12-16	Basic Networking ifconfig, aliasing, route, iptables, ping, configuring a gateway, ip forwarding, masquerading, interface aliasing	Chapter 14 - TCP/IP Networking	Lab 1 Configuring a Gateway
Week 3 September 19-23	Packet Filtering iptables	Chapter 22 - Security iptables.pdf	Lab 2 Packet Filtering
Week 4 September 26-30	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 October 3-7	Mail postfix, smtp, imap, pop, mailx Assignment #1 handed out	Chapter 20 - Electronic Mail	Lab 4 Postfix Mail Configuration
Week 6 October 10-14	Web Servers apache installation and configuration Quiz #1 & Review	Chapter 23 - Web Hosting	Lab 5 Apache Install/Config
Week 7 October 17-21	Midterm Test Assignment #1 due		Assignment #1 Due
Study Week
Week 8 October 31-November 4	FTP Server		Lab 6 VSFTP Server Setup
Week 9 November 7-11	NFS with Automount exportfs, showmount, /etc/exports,autofs, auto.master	Chapter 18 - The Network File System	Lab 7 NFS Setup
Week 10 November 14-18	NIS ypserv, ypbind, ypcat	Chapter 19 - Sharing System Files	Lab 8 NIS Configuration
Week 11 November 21-15	SAMBA smbclient, smbmount (mount -t cifs), smbpasswd, smb.conf		Lab 9 Samba Servers and Clients
Week 12 November 28-December 2	Backup/Restore tar, cpio, dump/restore, wget, netcat, ssh, scp, rsync, cron, at		Lab 10 Automating Backups
Week 13 December 5-9	Quiz #2 & Review Assignment #2 due		Assignment #2 Outstanding Labs
Exam Week

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