FYI, I managed to get socks working with KDE. Turned out that it was a Debian problem, not a KDE problem. Debian uses /etc/dante.conf instead of the standard /etc/socks.conf for the Dante config file. Wish they would have documented that somewhere. =) Anyways, everything works just fine now, so here's a documented case of KDE properly using with a socks proxy. Topher Cyll Topher Cyll wrote: > Ryujin, > > I'm having similar problems. I'm using socks 4 and I've verified that my > setup is working properly (works fine under Gnome, etc...). I've got KDE > to detect my socks library (Debian package: libsocksd), but I'm having > absolutely no success getting any KDE app to use it. > > I did a lot of searching to see if others were having similar problems, but > I only found one or two other emails, and no one seemed to have gotten back > to any of them. I couldn't find any documented cases of anyone actually > getting it working, so eventually I gave up. > > If anyone out there has ever made it work, I'd love to hear what steps you > went through. > > Best of luck, > Topher Cyll > > éç wrote: > > Dear KDE list, > > > > I'm trying to configure kopete (kde-3.2) to use socks servers but I have > > no clue how to do it. > > > > In "Internet & Network" options I checked the Enable SOCKS support and of > > course I installed the Dante socks server. It detects the library and the > > test result says "Success! SOCKS was found and initialized.". > > > > Now I want to make kopete to connect to my socks5 server, how do I do > > that? where do I specify the port and ip address of the sock server? do > > I have to configure and start the dante server on my desktop? or is just > > the libraries that are needed? > > > > What does the socks configuration do? > > > > The socks server uses ss5. > > > > > > Starting kopete from command line I get: > > > > kdecore (KLibLoader): library=libsocks.so: No file names libsocks.so > > found in paths. > > kdecore (KLibLoader): library=libdsocksd.so.0: No file names > > libdsocksd.so.0 found in paths. > > kdecore (KLibLoader): library=libsocks5.so: No file names libsocks5.so > > found in paths. > > kdecore (KLibLoader): library=libsocks5_sh.so: No file names > > libsocks5_sh.so found in paths. > > kdecore (KSocks): Found Dante SOCKS > > kdecore (KSocks): SOCKS has been activated! > > > > > > and a tcpdump clearly shows that kopete is not accessing the sock server > > but going directly to the MSN server: > > > > 11:04:20.103384 192.168.0.135.36370 > messenger.hotmail.com.1863: S > > 1799339418:1799339418(0) win 5840 <mss 1460,sackOK,timestamp 4535808 > > 0,nop,wscale 0> (DF) > > > > > > regards > > Ryujin > > ___________________________________________________ > > . > > Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. > > Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. > > More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html. > > ___________________________________________________ > . > Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. > Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. > More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html. ___________________________________________________ . Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.