How do I get winxp file sharing to work?

> It's not normal for the Server service to be paused. Setting the
> recovery conditions to "Restart the Service" might help.

Unfortunately that did not help.

> To find the cause, run Event Viewer and look for any relevant error
> messages:

There were some error messages in there although I am at a loss to know if
they are relevant to this problem, nor how to fix the problems causing these
messages. Here are the errors reported:

Event viewer (Application), Event Source: Userenv
The Group Policy client-side extension Security failed to execute. Please
look for any errors reported earlier by that extension.

Event viewer (System), Event Type: Error
The Cisco Systems IPsec Driver service depends on the following nonexistent
service: DNE

Do you think these errors are related ti the problem?

On Mon, 28 Apr 2008 02:31:01 -0700, pmennen
<pmennen@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>> It's not normal for the Server service to be paused. Setting the
>> recovery conditions to "Restart the Service" might help.
>
>Unfortunately that did not help.
>
>> To find the cause, run Event Viewer and look for any relevant error
>> messages:
>
>There were some error messages in there although I am at a loss to know if
>they are relevant to this problem, nor how to fix the problems causing these
>messages. Here are the errors reported:
>
>Event viewer (Application), Event Source: Userenv
>The Group Policy client-side extension Security failed to execute. Please
>look for any errors reported earlier by that extension.
>
>Event viewer (System), Event Type: Error
>The Cisco Systems IPsec Driver service depends on the following nonexistent
>service: DNE
>
>Do you think these errors are related ti the problem?

I don't know. But I've heard of strange networking problems that are
related to the Cisco VPN client. If it's installed, un-install it and
see what happens.
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I've been trying to network a ThinkpadX41 with WinXP tablet ed SP2 via workgroup/wireless with a Dell380 workstation w/ WinXP Pro SP2 using simple file sharing [because Briefcase only works w/ simple file sharing]. I can access the Dell's shared files from the Thinkpad via My Network Places and the Thinkpad shows up in the Dell's My Network Places, but clicking on the thinkpad icon I get "access denied".[clicking on the thinkpad icon in My Network Places on the thinkpad itself also got me "access denied"] I've done the Network Setup Wizard on the Dell creating a disc I then used on the Thinkpad and then did it the other way around. I checked firewalls settings on the Thinkpad, even turned them off, no change. Server Service was "started" on Thinkpad [set to automatic]. I enabled NTBios over TCP/IP on both computers, altho NTBios is supposed to be a security risk and WinXP is supposed to work w/ just the IP/TCP protocol.
I then tried run > \\ComputerName\Sharename to get from the Dell to the Thinkpad and got a "not enough server storage" message. I then edited the registry on the thinkpad to add an IRPStackSize value under lanmanager and set it at 15, then 18. [I have Symantec on both computers, and Symantec antivirus can apparently require increasing IRPStackSize].
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/106167/en-us
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/177078/en-us
At value=18 I was able to access the thinkpad's shared documents from the Dell using the run > \\ComputerName\Sharename command but I still can't access the thinkpad via My Network Places -"no access".
I'm wondering if there is some username/PW or other permission issue that the thinkpad has w/ simple file sharing [and that the Dell computer does not] that is bypassed by the run command. Maybe the thinkpad doesn't really "do" simple file sharing. I haven't come across any specific known thinkpad file sharing problems googling tho.