Recover email archives on DLTtapeIV

So, we have been asked to recover emails archived by a company that retired their Sun Netra T 1405 and StorEdge L280 some years ago. We have no monitor or keyboard but reached the login via terminal session, no problem there. All ok until we enter the root password they have for it: no good and they have no other passwords.
We tried the tapes in a Quantum DLT4 drive but they are not reading and get rejected.
We put together a Solaris x86 10 system but learned through another very informative thread here that our AHA-2940 will not work with the drive (we would need a 2944) but ... even if we got one, I wonder if we are just going down another dead-end alley. Would we be able to reconstruct the archives without the catalogue (which i am presuming is on the Netra)?
Suggestions & recommendations much appreciated!

Hello Jim,
resetting the root password would be great but the two Sun/Solaris experts I have tried to hire for this do not seem to be up to that task, implying that that was not feasible.
Either these are no experts or they rated this as an illegal action.
The procedure requires a CD-ROM drive and a Solaris CD (8, 9 or 10).
If the optional CD-ROM drive isn't installed, you have to use netboot, but this involves setup of a boot server with Solaris ....
If you use google (or any search machine) with the keywords "lost +root +password" (without quotes) you get over twelve thousand (12000) hits.
Some of the descriptions are very detailed (they even take care of the editor used), other show only the direction (mounting the /-filesystem of the disk, making changes to /etc/shadow). The procedure doesn't reveal the former root password, the need to enter the password is removed.
It's not a security breach, because it requires direct access to the system.
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