Connecting to the Beaglebone

Plug in the USB cable with the microUSB on the beaglebone and the USB on the PC

Terminal

On the PC, run

ssh root@192.168.7.2

This will give you a terminal session that runs on the beaglebone.

Remote Desktop

Install VNC on the beaglebone:

Connect the beaglebone to the Internet.

Open a terminal session on the Beaglebone.

On the beaglebone, 

apt-get install x11vnc

x11vnc -bg -o %HOME/.x11vnc.log.%VNCDISPLAY -auth /var/run/lightdm/root/:0 -forever

On the PC, open Remote Desktop Viewer.

click on connect

To run this automatically when the beaglebone reboots, put the above command in to a script file and save it as vncstart.sh

Make the file executable.

Then run

crontab -e

This will open an editor where you can edit crontab jobs.

At the end of the file, add the line

@reboot /vncstart.sh &

(In this example, the file is located at / You can put it somewhere else but make sure to add the path to the file)

Hit CTRL-O to save the file, then enter, then CTRL-X to exit the editor.

FTP

The FTP service is already running on the Beaglebone.

The parameters for Filezilla are