After upgrading my Ubuntu server from 14.04 to 16.04, I noticed that legacy AppleTalk clients connecting to my netatalk (afpd) server showed an empty volume list; I could no longer access my “Home Directory” share that showed up by default in 14.04.
After some research, I discovered that the 14.04 to 16.04 upgrade brought netatalk from version 2.2.2 up to 2.2.5. It turns out that 2.2.5 has a bug which causes AppleTalk clients to not see anything from /etc/netatalk/AppleVolumes.default; only /etc/netatalk/AppleVolumes.system is read. Here is a link to the bug report I posted.
You could rebuild netatalk 2.2.5 with the latest unreleased patches as I mentioned in my first comment of the bug report above, or you can do what I did: just put your volumes into /etc/netatalk/AppleVolumes.system instead. I’m unsure if the “~” share works properly when it’s in /etc/netatalk/AppleVolumes.system, so I hardcoded it to my home directory path just in case. It works fine!
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