What means "Remote Server Paused"?

I am running Win XP Home on a Dell Dimension desktop and Win XP Pro on an IBM
T43 laptop. All current on

updates. Both use wireless to go thru a Linksys router & get to internet.

I have been able to get the laptop to use the printer and to get to some
shared folders on the desktop. (The

Windows part was simple, it took me a while to figure out that I needed to
change settings in Norton Firewall

to trust local machines.)

But when I am at the desktop and use Windows Explorer to access the laptop I
get the following error message"

"[computer name] is not accessible. You might not have permission to use
this network resource. Contact the

administrator of the server to find out if you have access permissions.
The remote server has been paused or is in the process of being started."

What does the last part of that message tell me I have to do?

OK, I figured out that the service "Server" was paused. I started it and it
worked as expected. But every time I start the laptop this service comes up
"Paused" and I have to manually re-start it. Obviously not right. I guess
there is some other setting that must be overriding the startup setting.
Please advise. Thanx.

Scoot <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> OK, I figured out that the service "Server" was paused. I started it
> and it worked as expected. But every time I start the laptop this
> service comes up "Paused" and I have to manually re-start it.
> Obviously not right. I guess there is some other setting that must
> be overriding the startup setting. Please advise. Thanx.

Make sure your system is fully patched via Microsoft Update, check your
event logs - and note that this isn't a wireless question, so it would be
best to post in microsoft.public.windowsxp.general. For the purposes of this
post, I'm setting up my reply to crosspost there.