Then I think this needs to be in the customised section - in the vanilla HDR-FOX section the presumption is that the topic does not involve customisation.Not sure i made myself clear; it's the laptop that had the problem. Everything (CF and samba) on the T2 is fine and dandy apart from (now) not being seen by win7!
Have you got the right Workgroup set on all the machines. If you don't have them all the same, W7 sometimes takes quite a long time to find them (unless you type in the IP address).