Just a guess but sounds like a possible mismatch between client and server 
dealing with password...

Larry Way
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>>> fred AT MIDWAY.UCHICAGO DOT EDU 03/18/00 01:14PM >>>
We have run into an intermittant problem on some MACs, all new with the
latest client: the scheduler stops soon after startup.  On one machine it
may have been a memory problem or a TCPIP problem.  We never resolved it
because one day it started and has worked consistently since.  Others have
also mysteriiously begun to work.  But nothing can get one last machine to
work, and, of course, it belongs to the Executive Director.  It's a laptop
and if he remembers to restart the scheduler after startup, it works.  A
manual backup always works.

Anyone else seen such a state of affairs.