Link: http://www.howtoforge.com/perfect-server-ubuntu8.04-lts

Alright, only a small success to be truthful, but I have managed to get a little further with the Ubuntu server build. At long last, I managed to get it fixed up with a static IP address, have been connecting from the Vista box to 'PIGLET' with PuTTY, have the basics of using Vim worked out and I've finally got something other than a default "It works!" page into the root of 'www'. It's not much, but then I never claimed to be much of an expert in some of these things. Next step is how to connect using FTP, then finally, I may be able to push content into it from Dreamweaver CS4. Much thanks go to the page above for the low down on how to fix it all up.