Direct Ethernet connection to a mac

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(6th Feb, 2014 05:38 AM)IriDium Wrote:  However, in the Standard configuration, it is only R/O.

This is the easy part... edit /etc/usbmount/usbmount.conf
but using smb just adds to comfort, it is not my actual issue.

Which is: I am usually connected to the net via wlan0, but want to use an ethernet cable for a quick file transfer from my notebook to my rpi. When I connect the cable, seemingly nothing happens. I assume I need to configure a dhcp client to somehow kick in and get an ip and register it to ahavi (bonjour).

Then I can just connect via the cable and the common name and get much better speeds than via wifi.

But how can this (or something similar) be done?