subclassing/inheritance QObject problem

[cbeall1]

Hi all,
I am having trouble integrating (by subclassing) an external C++ library into Qt. This library contains some unix sockets classes, which of course contains the connect(.....) function.
Of course this clashes with QObject when I try to subclass it. I get the following error:

no matching function for call to 'Server::connect(int&, sockaddr*, unsigned int)' .....
candidates are: static bool QObject::connect(const QObject*, const char*, const QObject*, const char*)

Is there any way I can fix this without rewriting the external library to use Qt's network functions? (I really don't want to do this because this external library is being maintained independently and I want to make as few changes to it as possible).

Thanks!