That series of steps is precisely what I do. The only thing I can add to that, is that for "enter an IP to one of the entry" I specifically enter 127.0.0.1 to the socks host, and I also enter a port (12345) for it. "Use the same proxy for all protocols" is left at the default of unchecked.
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