Good shot, I think that's where the problem is.

SocksPort is set to 'auto'

and when I go into the visual menu of tor and change it to 9050 instead of auto it's reversed back to auto again upon restart. The same when I edit it in the torrc itself: upon restart SocksPort returns to 'auto'.

And in my windows tor it's set to manually 9050.

I'm trying to find some ways to 'keep' it. Maybe there is a way to make it read-only in linux? I'll play around with this a bit.

If it matters I found:

Prot  Recv-Q  Send-Q  Local Address    Foreign Address    State
tcp   0              0        0.0.0.0:8333      0.0.0.0:*          LISTEN

I know that 8333 is the default bitcoin port.

I tried:
netstat -an|grep 9050
netstat -anp|grep 9050
sudo netstat -an|grep 9050
sudo netstat -anp|grep 9050

(I'm linux newb)
didn't come back with anything (while bitcoin was running with socks 9050 port supposedly running).

I should also add that this is a very fresh format, so there's almost nothing on that machine.

Hey, thanks for the reply.

I checked the system log, there's no mention of bitcoin.
And actually I realised that as long as I leave the socks proxy unchecked it works fine. As soon as I restart it with the default TOR socks data (127.0.0.1, at port 9050) it stops finding connections (zero), even though I can browse through tor at the same time just fine.

Maybe I could use a different port? But how would I do that still using tor?
Any other suggestions? I feel like I'm in a "This should definitely work, there's no reason it shouldn't, but it doesn't." situation.

I'm running ubuntu 10.04 32-bit.

I have tor set-up on two machines, which are both connected to the same router. (both have the same public ip when I don't use tor or anything).
I configured tor and bitcoin the same way on both, the only difference is one is linux the other is windows.

Now to the problem:
Linux computer is stuck at synchronizing with network 0%. Even when I added connect=<ip of my main pc> in the config. (also how come when I open bitcoind, nothing happens and it disappears in the processes within a seconds?)

I just want bitcoin to work on my linux without leaking information. Is there a tutorial for non-pros? I can only find one about security, not anonymity. It would also be good to have some kind of way of verifying that the transfer is in fact anonymous.

[The two machiens use different wallets]

I think the essential information comes down to:
Which router configurations for ANONYMOUS wallet use?
What bitcoin settings?
What steps to verify?

Thanks in advance.