<sect2 id="socks"> <sect2info> <authorgroup> <author >&Lauri.Watts;</author> <othercredit role="translator" ><firstname >Malcolm</firstname ><surname >Hunter</surname ><affiliation ><address ><email >malcolm.hunter@gmx.co.uk</email ></address ></affiliation ><contrib >Conversion to British English</contrib ></othercredit > </authorgroup> </sect2info> <title >SOCKS</title> <para >SOCKS is a protocol to execute proxy requests for a client. SOCKS is capable of authentication and encryption of traffic, and is often found in corporate settings, as opposed to home users. For more information about SOCKS, see the <ulink url="http://www.socks.nec.com" >NEC</ulink > website</para> <para >With this module you can enable most of the network aware &kde; applications to transparently use SOCKS.</para> <para >Setting up of a SOCKS client is outside the scope of this document, and the differences between the commonly used ones are very large. If you already have a working SOCKS implementation, allowing you to use commandline clients (for example, if <command >lynx</command > or <command >ftp</command > are already working) then you can simply check the <guilabel >Enable SOCKS support</guilabel > checkbox.</para> <para >When this box is checked, several further options become available to you.</para> <para >First, you should select which of the various SOCKS clients you have installed on your computer. &kde; will attempt to find this out by itself, if you choose <guilabel >Auto detect</guilabel >. If you know the client you have, you could choose either <guilabel >NEC Socks</guilabel > or <guilabel >Dante</guilabel >. If you have a custom built SOCKS library to use, you can select <guilabel >Use custom library</guilabel > and then enter the path to it in the <guilabel >Path</guilabel > field.</para> <para >If you want &kde; to auto detect the SOCKS library in use, but you suspect it isn't looking in the right places or you have installed it in a non-standard location, then you can add further paths to be searched in the bottom of this panel. Use the <guibutton >Add</guibutton > and <guibutton >Remove</guibutton > to add or remove paths.</para> <para >At any time while filling in this module, you can press the <guibutton >Test</guibutton > button, and &kde; will report immediately with a message box to tell you if it could find and initialise SOCKS or not.</para> <para >Changes made here will not affect any applications that are already open. You will need to close and restart them before they are able to connect via SOCKS.</para> <para >Conversion to British English: Malcolm Hunter <email >malcolm.hunter@gmx.co.uk</email ></para > </sect2>