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Sharing Files Locally Without a Crossover Cable on OS X

Mac OS X is capable of intelligently detecting whether a cat5 cable is connected to a network device or to another PC. When connected to another PC, it will (digitally) flip the pins to “emulate” a cat5 crossover cable. Here’s an example on how to share files between a Macbook and another box (XP, Linux etc). [...]