For several years, I've been able to connect my Pro desktop to my MacBook Pro directly by an Ethernet cable; to "see" the Pro (which has File Sharing enabled) on the laptop's list of servers ("Shared") in a Finder sidebar on the laptop; and so to mount the desktop's disk on the laptop for very quick copying of large quantities of data.
In Mountain Lion (and perhaps in Lion, which I didn't have installed for long), this no longer works: the desktop just doesn't show up in the server list. If I enable wifi on both machines, it does show up but of course the connection over wifi is much, much slower than it is over Ethernet.
I have set the Finder's preferences to show everything enabled in the sidebar.
Is this as it should be, or is there something I can enable to get it back? The alternative, of course, is to connect the laptop in firewire disk mode but that means shutting it down, which is tedious.
TIA
Jeremy
In Mountain Lion (and perhaps in Lion, which I didn't have installed for long), this no longer works: the desktop just doesn't show up in the server list. If I enable wifi on both machines, it does show up but of course the connection over wifi is much, much slower than it is over Ethernet.
I have set the Finder's preferences to show everything enabled in the sidebar.
Is this as it should be, or is there something I can enable to get it back? The alternative, of course, is to connect the laptop in firewire disk mode but that means shutting it down, which is tedious.
TIA
Jeremy