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How To SetUP SOCKS5 Proxy Server on Linux based OS

What is the best way to setup SOCKS5 proxy server on *nix? I have tried a lot of solutions but really not impressed For instance one GO-based solution just not working, another option is to use ssh ...
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How to let gsettings set org.gnome.system.proxy.socks export socks5:// all_proxy variable instead of sock://

I want to set proxy for a Gnome system. When I use these commands: gsettings set org.gnome.system.proxy.socks host 127.0.0.1 gsettings set org.gnome.system.proxy.socks port 1080 to set a proxy for ...
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Does Chromium not support SOCKS5H (with the "H" in the end)?

If I try to start Chromium or any Chromium-based browser with: [...] --proxy-server="socks5h://blablabla" Then it fails to load any page. However, it works if I do: [...] --proxy-server=&...
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Config Wireguard server to use a socks proxy to access internet

There is a Wiregurad server that is working perfectly, but we need that Wireguard's server connect to the internet using socks proxy through the second server and ONLY Wireguard, Not other programs ...
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socks5 proxy + proxifier doesn't work for some connections

I live in a country where many foreign websites are blocked. I have been using a socks5 proxy by SSH dynamic port forwarding and Proxifier to circumvent this restriction. Recently, I found that some ...
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Anyone got a SOCKS4/5 proxy client for linux that supports username and password? [closed]

I do not want a http(s) client, I do not want a ftp client I need a SOCKS4/4a/5 client that supports username + password authentication. Sorry for the bold text, just gotta make sure I clarify it well ...
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OSX Remote Screen Sharing But No SOCKS

Edit2: I think it's a DNS issue on the remote machine, but I'm not completely sure. Once I've set up the SOCKS proxy via ssh -D 5050 -C -N [email protected] and fired up Firefox pointed to 5050, some ...
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Google finds my real IP even when the proxy is on

I am using a proxy application [sshuttle] on my linux for ssh tunneling. The websites such as whatismyip.com or browserleaks.com/ip echo my ip as expected. But Googling "my ip" on Chromium ...
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In my situation, what would be the most reasonable way for me to be able to use my "real connection" on demand?

I have one computer, with one network port. I have no wifi. It runs Windows 10. It's connected (via the wall cables) to my NAT router and from that to the "fiber box". I have OpenVPN ...
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How to force Linux only use Socks5 instead of Socks4

I used command gsettings to set proxy mode to be 'manual', proxy.socks host '127.0.0.1' proxy.socks port 1080, Test program received socks4 and socks5 packets. Socks5 is only used on the packet which ...
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How do I set up a SOCKS proxy pretending to be an HTTPS website?

I have a machine accessible to the Internet at large on essentially any port. This is machine A and it runs a GNU/Linux-based system. I also have a machine connected to an internal network somewhere. ...
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Turn SOCKS to VPN using OpenVPN

I'm on Windows 10 and I have a local SOCKS connection (Psiphon 3) and I want to share this connection via Wifi Hotspot. I know how to share an OpenVPN connection via wifi hotspot but I don't know how ...
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How to create a transparent tunnel through socks on windows?

I want to make a tunnel - listen some fixed port on my local machine and every traffic it gets to be sent over SOCKS proxy (with authentication) to some specific fixed host&port behind that proxy ...
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SSH Tunnel channel open failed (SOCKS)

to bypass geographic filters using my laptop I connect via ssh to my home server. I use this command: ssh -D 8081 [email protected] I have convigured firefox proxy settings with localhost ...
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Forward network traffic on iPhone through sshuttle tunnel on Mac

Is it possible to forward my network traffic on my iPhone through a sshuttle tunnel on my Mac (on the same WiFi network)?
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Camera process running in the background?

While trying to fix another problem in netstat -anp, I noticed something like this: unix 2 [ ACC ] STREAM LISTENING 8421 417/arc_camera_serv /run/camera/camera.sock Yesterday when I found ...
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Route all traffic except Tor through an SSH connection

I have an SSH tunnel set up (on Linux) and I want to route all my network traffic through it, except that I also have Tor running and I do not want Tor traffic to go through the SSH tunnel. I can ...
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How to create a SOCKS proxy with ssh?

I want to use my computer as a SOCKS proxy. Do you just have to do ssh -D port_number hostname? Do I have to put my Linux username as the hostname?
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Reversed ssh tunnel w/ socks

My situation is as following: Work mac behind firewall, named as 'Victim'. (High Sierra 10.13.3) Ubuntu VHS on the net, named as 'server'. Which has ssh running at port 2222. (Ubuntu 16.04) other Mac ...
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Internet Explorer 11 as a SOCKS5 Proxy Client Resolves Hostnames Locally, not on the Proxy

Internet Explorer 11 as a SOCKS5 proxy client resolves hostnames locally, not on the proxy. Is there any way to force Internet Explorer 11 to resolve hostnames on the proxy? I would rather not ...
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Troubleshooting proxy issues

My IT is very unreliable in providing me support. My company has provided 2 proxies for reaching the internet. Let's call them proxy A & B. Proxy A supports HTTP, HTTPS, and SOCKS. Proxy B ...
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Creating VPN "kill-switch" using SOCKS

I want to route all traffic for specific applications (for example Firefox supports SOCKS) through VPN. My VPN service provider offers configuration settings (SOCKS host, port) for SOCKS5 protocol. If ...
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Can I use domain name instead of IP to connect SOCKS5 proxy server?

I have domain name with correct A- and AAAA-records and my personal SOCKS5 Dante Server. Via IP all is okay, but when I try to connect via domain it's failed. So is it real to set up or impossible? ...
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Make a reverse dynamic port forward using only Plink

A lot of tuto online give an explanation about how to configure ssh to make a dynamic port forwarding server. In my case, using only Plink, I have some trouble. The context is as follow : I want all ...
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UDP traffic through Socks

How to send all traffic through the socks if it doesn't support UDP filtering directly. For example DNS traffic I can redirect on Socks using the 'DNS Socks Proxy' using the TCP Protocol. Is it ...
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How do I run multiple jar files from shell or cmd, and have all of them use different proxies?

I'm trying to run a jar file through a socks proxy. If I only had one jar, it would probably work to just change system variables, but I need to run like 20 jar files at the same time, all with ...
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Tunnel internet through ssh then through a proxy

I have a windows machine having IP 10.5.1.60,lets call it X. I can connect to a linux machine over SSH,having IP 10.1.32.7,lets say Y. Y uses a HTTP proxy to 10.25.0.42:3128 to connect to internet,i.e....
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exclude socket files during diff -r

diff has an option --recursive (-r) to do a comparison between two directories (the files inside them). Is there a way to make diff ignore all socket files and only socket files? I am using diff --...
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How to use a local SOCKS server as a gateway?

I'm running a SOCKS proxy server (on an Ubuntu machine) which is used to bypass internet censorship. I'd like the devices in the same network (such as TVs etc), which don't support SOCKS, to use this ...
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Debian Linux: How can I expose a SOCKS proxy as a HTTP proxy for the purpose of HTTP/HTTPS requests?

How can I allow a program, which only supports talking through a HTTP proxy, to talk through a SOCKS proxy? In other words, take the HTTP-proxy request and turn it into a SOCKS-proxy request which ...
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How can I run Minecraft through a proxy?

I have a socks proxy available on my local machine, which is set up using putty to SSH into a remote box I have access to. I want to run Minecraft using this proxy, as there are firewall rules in ...
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How can I mount an SMB share over SOCKS proxy on OS X?

I have an SSH-based SOCKS proxy connection for securely connecting to a remote network, which I don't control. I connect with ssh -D 3128 ssh.example.com, and I have a Location set up in System ...
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Certificate authentication over socks/ssh

My workplace has the requirement that to browse any internal site the browser has to present a valid certificate. My desktop at work has such a valid certificate. I would like to tunnel to the desktop ...
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Pass Microsoft Edge traffic through proxifer

I just installed Windows 10, and it seems that Proxifer can not capture and pass Microsoft Edge traffic through my SOCKS server. It doesn't capture anything. While Internet Explorer's traffic still ...
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No proxy tunnel softwares works properly on my OSX Yosemite 10.10.2

I run PoroxyCap 2.7 on my OSX and it used to work properly 38 days ago, then expired, so I bought a licence number, and the software now opens.However it doesn't redirect through proxy.Before buying ...
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routing traffic through tor and socks5, different to socks5 and then tor?

I'd like to route traffic through tor and a socks5 proxy. Question: Is there a difference between routing: laptop -> tor -> socks55 laptop -> socks5 -> tor
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How to use TOR browser as SOCKS proxy for other devices on my LAN?

I have installed the TOR browser on my mac and configured the networking to use port: 9150 so browsing using Safari etc uses TOR and I can test that using the test at the Tor project test site. I ...
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Configuring firefox to use a chain proxy

I live in college and I access internet through a local http proxy. I want to access internet through external http/SOCKS5 proxies which are freely available. How to configure Firefox to do that? ...
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How to set up a hotspot with socks5 proxy

I have a laptop with linux installed on it. The laptop has two network interfaces: eth0 and wlan0. Normally I surf the Internet through eth0, and I've successfully set up a hotspot in linux for my ...
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vpn connection via socks proxy

I can't seem to get a transparent proxy working in openvz. So instead I would like the VPN client to give me back a local socks proxy (ip:port). Is this possible in OpenVPN or any other VPN client ...
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ssh, how to enable remote proxy?

I use this ssh -D 9999 [email protected] Then I use firefox and put in the proxy settings as socks 5 , localhost, port 9999 This works fine, but what If I want several other people to use my server ...
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How to chain SOCKS proxies?

Preface: What I’m looking for are explicit instructions, in the same format as above. That is, something like run: “…run command X on machine A, then command Y on machine B…” I have a working socks ...
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What's the quickest way to setup a socks proxy tunnel through ssh from Mac OS X?

Very often, I find myself on a network with poor international link or with access to certain websites blocked. I already manage several VPS with much better connection to the outside world, and I'd ...
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Problems with network after using a socks proxy

I was playing around with SSH and trying to route traffic through my laptop. In the end I succeeeded, however I seem to have messed up my network. I only used ssh and played around with both -D and -L ...
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Android SHH tunneling through school Wi-Fi

Ok so I'll try my best to explain the situation at hand here. My school recently got a new web filter that blocks literally, everything. I can't use Google Drive or anything that I need anymore. Our ...
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Use a server as a remote SOCKS proxy using OpenSSH

I want to use a server I have as a SOCKS proxy for browsing from my laptop. According to OpenSSH's man page, you can do that with the opcion -D -D port Specifies a local ``dynamic'' application-...
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Socksify php script

I am trying to socksify php script network connections, however I am unable to do that, script ignores the socksifyer, just connects directly. I tried using tsocks and torsocks. tsocks php script....
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How to create a local-remote-local tunnel to a specific port using ssh

I'm able to establish an ssh connection from my windows computer (localhost - eth1) to my linux computer (remotehost - eth0) by doing: ssh [email protected] Instead of using that, because I use non-...
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Forwarded connection refused by server: Administratively prohibited [open failed]

I sometimes use PuTTY as a SOCKS proxy, and I've noticed that sometimes, when the web-page I'm trying to connect to (from the web-browser) does not exist, and requires a prolonged timeout, the shell ...
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Linux SOCKS5 tunneling not working with udp traffic

I am using the command ssh -N -D 0.0.0.0:1080 localhost which works perfectly fine for my web browser, but when I try and tunnel a UDP traffic application it doesn't work. I thought that socks5 ...
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