Windows Media Sharing Service will not start

I cannot get the windows media sharing service to start. When I
manually start it I get the following error message: Could not start
the Windows Media Player Network Sharing Service service on Local
Computer. Error 1008: An attempt was made to reference a token that
does not exist.

I am on Windows XP, and am attempting to share with our XBox on the
same network. I cannot see the xbox listed as an option to share with
(in media player), I believe it is because the sharing service is not
started.

Any help is appreciated!

Vincent
Sat Apr 12 03:18:00 PDT 2008

On XP ,UPnP is not installed by default and thats what you need for media
sharing
Maybe this link is of use:
http://www.bitwiseim.com/wiki/index.php?title=Using_UPnP_on_Windows_XP



"SaraMihan@gmail.com" wrote:

> I cannot get the windows media sharing service to start. When I
> manually start it I get the following error message: Could not start
> the Windows Media Player Network Sharing Service service on Local
> Computer. Error 1008: An attempt was made to reference a token that
> does not exist.
>
> I am on Windows XP, and am attempting to share with our XBox on the
> same network. I cannot see the xbox listed as an option to share with
> (in media player), I believe it is because the sharing service is not
> started.
>
> Any help is appreciated!
>