Apple utilities and updates released; TIL articles

Apple QuickTime for Java 3.0b4 is out.

Apple Remote Install for Mac OS 8.5.x 1.0 has been released. Using this software and Apple Network Assistant, you can install Mac OS 8.5 software on workstations on your network.

AppleShare IP Web Services collide with FileMaker Pro 4.1 Web Companion: As noted in Apple TIL article #24854: To avoid the two services from preventing each other from launching, Apple recommends that you give FileMaker Web Companion a different port than the one normally reserved for http services. FileMaker Pro Web Companion and AppleShare IP Web Services both use TCP/IP port 80 by default. Apple recommends you assign port 591 to FileMaker Pro. Although any unused port may work, FileMaker, Inc. has registered port 591 with the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority for use with Web Companion.

Solving an Epson install problem (and an interesting tidbit on mounting CDs) Apple TIL article #24857 notes a fix for an Epson printer problem where the installer claims the selected disk is locked and you cannot switch to your hard drive. The problem occurs if you are starting up from the Power Macintosh G3 CD (which contains the USB drivers in the CD Extras folder). The solution is to instead startup (with extensions disabled) from the hard drive. The interesting tidbit here is that if the Mac OS CD is in the drive at startup, it will still mount even though you did not load the Apple CD driver.