AirDrop over Ethernet

AirDrop is an interesting feature on MacOS X allowing easy file sharing between 2 computers. Unfortunately, for no logical or technical reason, this works only over Wi-Fi.

Maybe people are more and more using Wi-Fi, but it's still slow compared to ethernet and personnaly, I'm using ethernet 99 % of the time.

Since it’s not a technical problem… there is an option to turn it on, on all network interfaces:

$ sudo defaults write com.apple.NetworkBrowser BrowseAllInterfaces 1

Then restart your computer (or do a killall Finder).

Do the same with 0 to go back to Wi-Fi only.

Source: OS X Daily