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I have a crossover cable connected between my Macbook and Ubuntu 16.04 box, what do I need to do now to setup the transfer of data between them?

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Hmm, not sure why you'd be using/needing a crossover cable (From here: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2178081?start=0&tstart=0 "... for years the Mac's ethernet ports have had the ability to reverse the polarity of the signals if a crossover is needed, automatically. No need for special cables when hooking up to a Mac.")

To get you started, both PC's need to be on the same LAN so they can see each other. Setup a static IP address on each PC. E.g: Mac-192.168.1.1 Ubuntu-192.168.1.2 Netmask for both 255.255.255.0

Try to ping each PC: Mac to Ubuntu: ping 192.169.1.2

Helpful links:

How to share files between Ubuntu and OSX?

https://superuser.com/questions/842924/directly-connect-macbook-to-linux-desktop-via-ethernet-for-fast-ssh

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kwaka
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You will ned, on both computers:

  1. Identify the name of interface for crossover cable
  2. Assign an ip-address to each interface, that doesn't interfere with already used addresses. If computers are called 192.168.0.x, you could use 10.0.1.x
  3. Set up a route for the chosen ip-address / interface combination.
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