Thunderbolt Network frustration!

I am frustrated with Thunderbolt.
I love how fast it is but there are a few things that are hindering my workflow. If there are better soultions please let me know.
First I can not connect two computers with a thunderbolt cable WITHOUT putting it target disc mode. I would like to be able to share files between two computers as I believe I could before with a firewire cable. Also when using a G-Raid drive with thunderbolt two computers can not both access the drive even though there are two thunderbolt ports on the drive.
The distilation of my problem is I have lots of large files that I need to access and share between multiple computers and so far Thunderbolt is not the answer.
Any tips?
Thanks!!

Thunderbolt is not a network. It's in essence a serial PCIe bus. So you can't do peer-to-peer file sharing across Thunderbolt like you can with FireWire which is a very different type of technology. If you want to copy files via Thunderbolt, your target Mac must be in Target Disk Mode so it looks to the other system like a standard hard drive.; there's no other way it can work.
when using a G-Raid drive with thunderbolt two computers can not both access the drive even though there are two thunderbolt ports on the drive.
That indeed is a drive limitation. The drive would need to be engineered to mediate the requests from both computers to allow simultaneous access, and most drive vendors are engineering their drives for sharing via Ethernet or WiFi since that's the much more common technology used for such access.
Regards.

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