HELP! Seedbox with Ubuntu..READ

[midnightalker]

Hi again..I just got my seedbox info. For the record, seedhost.eu is excellent. But there is a small problem...
I can't do anything.I don't know HOW!!
So I REALLY need your help. As I said before this is my first time. I have NO linux experience/knowledge! I thought "Come on how hard can it be? I'll read some tutorials guides, whatever it takes..". Well SHIT. 3 hours now and I have done NOTHING. What I 've done so far:
Managed to login with Putty.
Managed to login with VNC.
Thats it! Nothing else..I was following this guide:
NaQ's Complete Setup Guide for Linux Seedboxes (Fedora Core/CentOS/Debian/Ubuntu)
but its no use. I'm moving blindly! HELP people. I'm so angry with myself.

UPDATE: I made it this far: 6. Setup uTorrent & WebUI

Now there is this. I'm connecting with VNC but there is nothing there but the background! No taskbar, no nothing! Right click does nothing at all..

I really hope that someone from you will help me and I'll even seed for him/her. I share the box..Anything. Just to get me started so next month I be able to do it myself.
Waiting eagerly for answers..
The seedbox has Ubuntu Desktop 7.04.

[Raban]

learning about linux isn't something that comes overnight ... take a break ... sleep on it... come back tomorrow and keep trudging along...

you stick with it you learn and things get easier

[midnightalker]

OK I cant run Xterm so I typed the commands to start Utorrent in Wine to Putty. Check this out..It seems that some driver is missing..Here is what it says..

Application tried to create a window, but no driver could be loaded.
Make sure that your X server is running and that $DISPLAY is set correctly.

and when i type firefox it says:

(firefox-bin:16539): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display:

Hey guys the main problem is I don't have any icons and no taskbar...Isn't this a classic Ubuntu problem..I'm googling many different phrases but I don't understand anything from what I read..What can I do?

[Raban]

are you sure you installed a window manager ?? if so which one was it

[midnightalker]

I got this email..I told you seedhost.eu is great..

Hi

I saw your topic on FST :-) You must use NXclient , not vnc, all is installed.
login admin pass you know..

Regards

So I'm working on it..still can't find how to use this but at least now I now what I'm trying to do..

[h1pp0]

What kind of speeds do you get with them?

[jayz707]

claim down you can do it. its not that hard as it may seem. linux is simple if you have any more problems post em here.

cheers!

[yellomello]

hmmm. I purchased a seedbox from him (seedbox option, not dedicated server) and everything was already set up to use. (VNC, ftp, WebUI). Which option did you pick?

[KaySterling]

I also bought(hired) a box a couple of hours ago. I bought a dedicated, i like to set things up by myself and maybe learn something in the process.
Hoping for some nice speeds when i get the box! Very exited!

[midnightalker]

So guys, I sorted out most of the problem and have gotten bit of familiar with linux. Still a lot to learn thought. What I'm concerned now is FTP! I still have been able to transfer files from/to my computer. I have really fucked things up. First I donwloaded a lot of FTP programs..But they were not servers, so I talked to dancefor and he said use proFTPD. So I did..Here 's my story.
I installed it from Add/Remove Apps from the applications menu. I installed the GPROFTPD the GUI server..At first I tried to make the settings myself..Nothing
Then I found a guide for it tried it...nothing
Then I found another more detailed guide from ubuntu forums...guess what..NOTHING

So I have applied I ton of commands from 2 different guides on one system as well as all the messing I did myself. Thats why I believe that no matter what you tell me now, I'm a very special case and no general guides are gonna work simply because A LOT of settings have already been changed. I hope you understand what I mean..

Here's a question in all that..Any other way to transfer my files from/to my computer besides FTP?
If not, then if I use a different server (suggest one if it exists!!?!) will all these matter?
What I have in mind right now, is really not a good idea but if I have no other choice...
1)MSN Single file transfer
2)upload bit by bit on a hosting site and then download them from my computer..

I told you I only have BAD ideas lately ("Oh, I think I'm gonna go with Linux"....SHIT)
So any other way?