...how embarracing. Thank you Bruce, Johny, and Gene for being patient 
with stupid newbies. Actually I thought there might be a build-in 
ftp-service. Then I heard about rc.config being the central switch for 
all kind of services, including TCP/IP stuff. That way I was able to 
activate the ssh server with a simple "sshd=YES" and use a terminal 
window on OSX to administer the Quadra (The big advantage is that my 
keyboard layout is correct - I couldn't fix that on the Quadra). So I 
looked through the whole rc.config but couldn't find a line in the 
default file that stated "ftpd=NO". Also, there was no ftpd.conf or 
similar in /etc. Therefore I was assuming that I had to install some 
extra package... Oh well, now that I discovered inetd.conf everything 
will be fine, hopefully.

Thanks again, Andreas

> Hi,
>
> While I haven't done this on the mac68k port, I can't
> imageine it's any different than any of the other ports.
>
> Make sure that
>
> inetd=YES
>
> is in rc.conf
>
> and then uncomment the line in /etc/inetd.conf that is for ftp.
> It should work fine then.
>
> cheers
>
> bruce