Dante proxy server connection issues

Hi, so I'm lost at where I'm going wrong. I've been looking into everything I could get google to point me to, but I'm still having issues here.

Just to note, this is my first time setting up a proxy server, so I'm learning as I'm going.

I installed Kubuntu on a VM with bridged networking, installed dante-server v1.4.2 on it, replaced the danted.conf file with the example full minimal template available on the developer's website (and made the appropriate modifications such as the correct IP address, etc), and assigned a static IP to the VM that I port forwarded TCP/UDP 1080 to from my physical modem. I have not installed ufw on this and I do not have any managed network hardware on my network other than the ISP modem, so there's no firewall in play. I've also confirmed the service is starting up and shown as running fine via systemctl status.

The purpose of this proxy server will be to route Cobian FTP backups over the internet.

Whenever I test in Cobian 11, it gives me a timeout. The Cobian settings I'm using are proxy type as SOCKS 5 and the proxy host as my public IP, port as 1080, and no authentication.

If it helps, here is the full .conf file I'm using.

Code:#logging
logoutput: /var/log/sockd.log
#debug: 1

#server address specification
internal: 192.168.2.15 port = 1080
external: 192.168.2.15

#server identities (not needed on solaris)
#user.privileged: root
user.notprivileged: socks
#user.libwrap: libwrap

#reverse dns lookup
#srchost: nodnsmismatch

#authentication methods
clientmethod: none
method: none

##
## SOCKS client access rules
##
#rule processing stops at the first match, no match results in blocking

#block access to socks server from 192.0.2.22 (exception for pass rule below)
# client block {
# #block connections from 192.0.2.22/32
# from: 192.0.2.22/24 to: 0.0.0.0/0
# log: error # connect disconnect
# }

#allow connections from local network (192.0.2.0/24)
client pass {
from: 192.168.2.0/24 to: 0.0.0.0/0
log: error # connect disconnect
}

##
## SOCKS command rules
##
#rule processing stops at the first match, no match results in blocking

#block communication with www.example.org
# block {
# from: 0.0.0.0/0 to: www.example.org
# command: bind connect udpassociate
# log: error # connect disconnect iooperation
# }

#generic pass statement - bind/outgoing traffic
pass {
from: 0.0.0.0/0 to: 0.0.0.0/0
command: bind connect udpassociate
log: error # connect disconnect iooperation
}

#block incoming connections/packets from ftp.example.org
# block {
# from: 0.0.0.0/0 to: ftp.example.org
# command: bindreply udpreply
# log: error # connect disconnect iooperation
# }

#generic pass statement for incoming connections/packets
pass {
from: 0.0.0.0/0 to: 0.0.0.0/0
command: bindreply udpreply
log: error # connect disconnect iooperation
}Perhaps I'm missing something simple, because like I said this is my first time setting up a proxy server.

Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thank you!