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In article <37DCB5FE.3CBDDCF@rocketmail.com>,
  Aaron Seet <bloodstorm@rocketmail.com> wrote:
> I'm accessing Internet thru my univ's server, which has a proxy
> firewall.  No problem setuping up for the proxy with Netscape, but I
> can't access with other applications like ICQ, IRC, etc.
>
> In Windows we can use this program called AutoSocks which
automatically
> configures for such applications to have access thru the proxy.  Is
> there a similar program for Linux?
>
>

If your university is using a SOCKS proxy server, you can use the
"runsocks" utility for Unix.  I think you can get it from NEC (the SOCKS
proxy folks) at http://www.socks.nec.com.

Peace.....

Tom


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I followed your advice & download the socks5 package (it's a server +
client as well right?)

been reading how to install & run it but can't figure out 3 quarters of
what they're saying?
I did a 
./configure --with-default-port=1080
--with-default-server=socks.qut.edu.au --with-default-version=5
--with-srvconffile=/etc/socks5.conf
--with-libconffile=/usr/local/etc/libsocks5.conf

without really knowing what will result.
I think i gotta set some env vars SOCKS5_USER & SOCKS5_PASSWD to use
runsock?
I did that but runsock ./ICQ still get any response.  runsock xchat gets
a connection refused error - previously it just says "trying to connect"
& just blocks there.  I guess runsocks is working to some extend but I'm
not in complete understand of the exact configuration process.

what am I missing out?

In article <37DDFC73.957DC54B@rocketmail.com>,
  Aaron Seet <bloodstorm@rocketmail.com> wrote:
> I followed your advice & download the socks5 package (it's a server +
> client as well right?)
>
> been reading how to install & run it but can't figure out 3 quarters
of
> what they're saying?
> I did a
> ./configure --with-default-port=1080
> --with-default-server=socks.qut.edu.au --with-default-version=5
> --with-srvconffile=/etc/socks5.conf
> --with-libconffile=/usr/local/etc/libsocks5.conf
>
> without really knowing what will result.
> I think i gotta set some env vars SOCKS5_USER & SOCKS5_PASSWD to use
> runsock?
> I did that but runsock ./ICQ still get any response.  runsock xchat
gets
> a connection refused error - previously it just says "trying to
connect"
> & just blocks there.  I guess runsocks is working to some extend but
I'm
> not in complete understand of the exact configuration process.
>
> what am I missing out?
>

Hi!  We don't use runsocks on Unix because we don't have any Internet
apps on Unix that require SOCKSification.  Netscape is basically the
only Internet app we use on Unix and it speaks the SOCKS4 protocol
natively, so we got lucky.

Here is the URL for the manual page on runsocks:
http://www.socks.nec.com/man/runsocks.1.html

Basically, you need to make sure runsocks knows which SOCKS server to
use, whether to use SOCKS4 (w/o userid/password authentication) or
SOCKS5 (w/ userid/password authentication) and the userid/password info
to connect to the SOCKS5 server (if that is what you use).  You should
be able to get the SOCKS4 vs SOCKS5 stuff from your Windows "AutoSock"
program configuration.

The man pages should have the rest of the info.  If you still need
runsocks specific help, you can post a messages to a SOCKS mailing list
and possibly get help from one of the SOCKS gurus.  Here is the mailing
list URL:  http://www.socks.nec.com/socksinfo.html

Good luck!

Peace....

Tom


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