Configuration files for my local ubuntu server for reference. Most tutorials I found were for netatalk 2.x, this is the configuration for 3.x. FILE LOCATIONS: /etc/afp.conf /etc/avahi/services/afpd.service This serves up the file systems via AFP. I am unsure how to do native time machine identification using smb3 at the moment, but to be honest …

afp.conf

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; Netatalk 3.x configuration file
;

[Global]
; Global server settings

; [Homes]
; basedir regex = /home

[Home Share]
path = /afpdvol/share
vol size limit = 500000
time machine = no
valid users = @awesome ;Syntax for users belonging to `awesome` group
rwlist = @awesome
file perm = 0664

[Time Machine Backup]
path = /afpdvol/timemachine
vol size limit = 1000000
time machine = yes
valid users = dcousineau ;Specific user

afpd.service

<?xml version="1.0" standalone='no'?><!--*-nxml-*-->
<!DOCTYPE service-group SYSTEM "avahi-service.dtd">
<service-group>
<name replace-wildcards="yes">%h</name>
<service>
<type>_afpovertcp._tcp</type>
<port>548</port>
</service>
<service>
<type>_device-info._tcp</type>
<port>0</port>
<txt-record>model=Xserve</txt-record>
</service>
</service-group>