I haven't done netinstall, but on a regular install, aren't telnet and sshd 
both disabled by default?

On Friday 28 January 2005 7:29 pm, MATTHIS ROUCH wrote:
> Dear netbsd/sparc users,
>
> I am trying to netboot my sparcstation so that I can remotely login to it
> and from there perform some installation. I have followed the instructions
> to boot the sun diskless, from a mac os x server. Things go pretty well, 1.
> rarpd worked
> 2. tftpd shows that the sun got the boot file
> 3. bootparamd on mac os x says:
>
> whoami 192.168.11.8
> whoami name=ss5 domain= router=192.168.11.1
> getfile ss5 root
> getfile server=192.168.11.4 (192.168.11.4) path=/export/client/root
>
> So I gathered everything was fine. Because I have no direct access to the
> client's console, I followed the instructions at
> http://www.netbsd.org/Documentation/network/netboot/files.nocons.html about
> "Setting up Remote Access Without Any Console", i.e creating device files,
> editing the rc.conf file, and set a account/password file.
>
> BUT, when trying to telnet to the sun station, nothing happens....
>
> Where do you think that something is going wrong?
> Any help greatly appreciated- thank!