Thanks for the reply. This thing isn't giving me anything at all on the screen to select or click or even type in. The mouse pointer (the pointer is an X indicating that no actions are possible at this point) moves, but button clicking does nothing. Typing on the keyboard does nothing either.

The machine is definatley using open windows - not CDE. My current suspicion is the the previous owner purposely disabled console and remote login in an attempt to save system rescources or perhaps as a security measure. I just don't know enough about Sun/Solaris to figure it out.