Trouble initializing SSH agent

[ReneKat]

Hello,
I am a new Ubuntu on Windows user and am following the Readme directions.
When I run the source ~/.bashrc I get the following:

Initializing new SSH agent...
touch: cannot touch '/home/renekat/.ssh/environment': No such file or directory
chmod: cannot access '/home/renekat/.ssh/environment': No such file or directory
-bash: /home/renekat/.ssh/environment: No such file or directory
-bash: /home/renekat/.ssh/environment: No such file or directory
Could not open a connection to your authentication agent.

The instructions in Step 3 Troubleshoot ssh-agent forwarding are greek to me.
1- How do I connect with ssh?
When I echo "$SSH_AUTH_SOCK" I get no output.
2-How do I make sure it's running? How do I configure ~/.ssh/config to run ForwardAgent?

Thanks for any and all guidance!