Lion Migration Assistant - Your other Mac stopped responding

iMac version 10.7
MBP version 10.7 clean install
I'm trying to migrate everything from the imac to the mbp. I've done this before in snowleopard.
I'm getting hung up just after the code is shown on both screens. the imac says "your other mac is ready" and the mbp says "your other mac stopped responding".
they are connected with the same ethernet i've used before.
the mbp can't find the imac.

I have the same problem,
I want to migrate from a Lion computer to another Lion computer,
and the source computer says "Your other Mac is ready.", and the destination computer says "Your other Mac stopped responding.".
I disabled the screen sharing in my source computer.
Now I don't have any shared things in both computers.
However, I still have the same problem.
Any idea?
Regards,
David

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