No - I can't do any of that. The login gui I get has no buttons or options or any thing I can change. I get the GUI which prompts me only for a login and password, I then enter those items, the GUI disappears, and that's it. The machine sits there happily being a NIS server but doesn't allow me to do anything with it. I wish I had something that would let me get to a shell but the only thing I can do at this point is hit <stop><a> and boot into single user mode.

I'm used to seeing something like what you are talking about in HP-UX and Linux - but I'm not getting that at all on this old Sun machine. There must be something someplace I can edit prevents OpenWindows from starting and just gives me a console type login. Any idea what that would be? I've been searching the 'net but not having any luck.