Solved! Thanks 'Atolboo'. Yours is a very comprehensive and somewhat daunting set of instructions but I made a start. Firstly I'm running Pardus 2008 so maybe the menu layouts differ and I really struggled with the Dutch language.
I had everything set-up on the Windows network so I didn't need to touch that. Next I just wanted to transfer files although I may have a crack at configuring the printer before long.
I went into {Tasma} {Service Manager} and enabled {SMB Network sharing} to be {run on startup} and rebooted. I double clicked on the {System} icon on the desktop, {Common Folders} {Network Folders} {Samba Shares} and in there were {Mshome} and {Pardus} icons. Double clicking {Mshome} showed my Windows PC and subsequently the shared directories. So, I got there, dead easy when you know how , thanks again for your friendly support.

Thanks Andreas. Yes, I gave myself super user privileges at install time but that didn't help. However, in the terminal I entered SU and responded with the root pwd. I then made 2 directories then did 'CHMOD 777 <dirname>' to set the permissions and started copying files with Konquerer. I'm no command line expert, I found the entry in Machtelt Garrels Introduction to Linux.

Could someone help me configure and connect to my home Windoze network? (The hardware connected previously with WinXP). Thanks in anticipation.

Potentially problematic ATI Radeon graphics and Broadcom Wireless got the correct drivers and configured OK. I set-up an additional partition for music & photos which I subsequently found I couldn’t write to because it was owned exclusively by root. But I changed permissions from the terminal and now OK. Very impressed!