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<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> 
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<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> 

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