file transfer problem

Anyone have a brief thought here to let me know whether or not I'm barking up the wrong tree? I'm transfering files from my old windows (200 pro) to my new (not that new, but preupgrade) linux machine running redhat 9.0. I've got them connected with a hub and I can see the shared printer on both (it's hooked up to the windows machine). Does that mean I just need to set the windows folders to share with all and I'm good? Or do i need to set up a sharing password of some sort on the windows machine that I can make nautilus prompt me for? Am I barking up the wrong tree all together?

I hate when basic seeming things like this stump me because a) I've never played with them and b) I'm not really into networking at all. Oh well.

later,
~joe