Migration assistant doesn't recognise my old mac

I just purcahased a new macbook pro retina late 2013, and I want to transfer all my data from my old macbook pro 2011 to it, using Migration assistant through ethernet and an ehternet to thunderbolt adapter.
When opening migration assistant, the new mac recognises the old one, but the old one doesn't recognise the new mac.
Both are running the latest version of OS X 10.9.1

Hi Cor Fra,
Welcome to the Support Communities!
The article below may be able to help you with this.
OS X: How to migrate data from another Mac using Mavericks
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5872
I hope this information helps ....
- Judy

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