Having problem with connection sharing: my laptop and Raspberry Pi

[frazelle09]

Well the Atrix solution didn't work.  Now i ran across another possible solution to see the Raspi's output ... set up a connection sharing with my laptop.

However the instructions i'm following are for Ubuntu and i don't get the same GUI Installation/Setup windows.  The laptop already has WiFi configured and working.  Tried to set up the Ethernet but the GUI replies that it doesn't exist. 

My ifconfig output is...

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ifconfig
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:1A:80:F8:3B:FC 
          inet6 addr: fe80::21a:80ff:fef8:3bfc/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:6 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:52 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:2052 (2.0 KiB)  TX bytes:10931 (10.6 KiB)
          Interrupt:16

eth0:9    Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:1A:80:F8:3B:FC 
          inet addr:127.255.255.255  Bcast:127.255.255.255  Mask:255.0.0.0
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          Interrupt:16

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback 
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
          RX packets:2 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:2 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:100 (100.0 b)  TX bytes:100 (100.0 b)

wlan0     Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:1F:3B:D1:58:1D 
          inet addr:192.168.1.73  Bcast:192.168.1.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::21f:3bff:fed1:581d/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:40585 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:24530 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:54179276 (51.6 MiB)  TX bytes:2560125 (2.4 MiB)

   i have the two "computers" connected with Ethernet and am trying to find the IP of the Raspi so i can SSH into it so that "...we can install a few things to get our display up and running."  So, i'm supposedly looking for "leases" but when i run this command i get...

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tail /var/log/dhcpd.log
tail: cannot open `/var/log/dhcpd.log' for reading: No such file or directory

Any help would be appreciated!  Have a wonderful evening!