I use a squid non-caching proxy with dante socks and dansguardian to control access to the internet. kde 3.5.0 traversed this authenticated firewall without a problem 3.5.3 won't I disable proxies and then it wont use socks. I can find no error messages other than not authenticated! -- regs conon _______________________ \ \ \ OOHH I hate TYPOS \ \ \ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ___________________________________________________ . Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.