1. Lab experience teaching System Software
Boro Jakimovski, M.Sc
Vangel Ajanovski

2. Course curriculum
The course covers the network services that are available on the internet and the local are network
More practical course with a lot of hands on experience for the students, but also giving them the insight on the services and their purposes

3. Lab excercises
Lab exercises are conducted in selected laboratories where additional HDD is added to the system
Students disconnect the primary drive and activate the second drive and then install the required software and services
Two students work on one seat

4. Covered services
Services are divided depending on the operating system they are running
Two operating systems are covered:
Windows 2000 Server
Linux (any distribution)
Some services overlap but are covered in the both operating systems

5. Windows 2000 Server The following services are discussed:
Active Directory (setting up, configuring security policies)
DNS (forward and reverse lookup, forwarding)
DHCP
Internet Information Server
Web
FTP
Services
File System Security

6. Linux The following services and issues are covered under Linux:
File system organization
Services under Linux
DNS (bind)
Web (apache)
Mail (postfix, sendmail, qmail)
FTP (wu-ftp)

7. Student projects
Student were given a project to install and configure certain services under Linux that were not covered in the standard curriculum
DHCP
ntоp
Kerberos
Apache (HTTP proxy)
Quota
NTP
NFS
Inn
Xdm
ipchains

8. Conclusion
Students find this course very interesting because it gives them the opportunity to get hands on experience with system administration skills
Many students previously did not had the opportunity to see how a server is configured and installed
Good as a reference for their application