Airdrop file sharing - what about ethernet? How strange.

Overall I like Lion, but sometimes I wonder what Apple is thinking. You have a file sharing app for your LAN, but then any wired computer is excluded? You have Macs on the same LAN, why not allow Airdrop to work over the wired connection?
I suppose you would have to change the name. Seems silly to have to leave the wireless receiver on with an ethernet connected Mac just to do Airdrop.
But really, other than that oddity, I like Lion.

Hi-
A suggestion as a possible simpler alternative-
The standard method of file sharing is structured so as to protect your system and your privacy by limiting the access and privileges of remote users. However in your particular situation, there is only one person - yourself- who already owns and controls both Macs, and so there is no privacy/security issue raised by granting full control to yourself when logged in remotely.
You might therefore therefore try it this way:
Enable File Sharing on both Macs. You shouldn't need to designate particular additional folders.
From the iMac: when you connect remotely to the MBP, enter the username and password of the user account that is on the MBP, not your current iMac username and password.
You should then be effectively logged in as the MBP user, not the iMac user. You should be able to navigate to the place on the MBP where you want to save things, presumably within the Home folder of the logged-in MBP account. If the MBP account is an admin account, you could navigate to the Shared folder as well. The files that you save should end up being owned by the MBP user account, and therefore should remain editable once you are physically back at the MBP.
Likewise if you want to share files that are on the iMac, then when you are sitting at the MBP, connect by entering the username and password of the user account on the iMac.

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I operate an IMac 3.06GHz and an Airbook 1.4 GHz
I frequently need to transfer files between the two, and in OSX 10.6, did so by setting the iMac to share the wireless connection and using drop box
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Symptoms are:
1. Air drop simply does not function. Neither computer recognizes the other, even if they are adjacent.
2. The Airbook will recognize the wireless connection, and is able to connect with some programs, but not all.
3. For example, Safari is able to load news sites, but not gmail and a google search freezes, although a Bing search for the succeeds.
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I want to share files between two Windows XP pro computers. I would also like that these shares can only be accessed with a password.
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I solved my problem by changing guest account passwords. I tried to keep things simple by using the same guest password on both computers. This however allowed FS to log on to TP without guest password for some unknown reason. My logic would tell me that having the same guest password would allow both computers to log in without password but this wasn't obviously the case. I guess Windows has its own logic that I can't figure out or this issue had something to do with different language setups. Anyhow my shares work now like I want them to work.

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And this question is hardly +Networking 101+.

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