request for help with networking sorcery (a bit long) 

let's see if i can explain this in a way that makes sense and doesn't make me sound silly

i want to set up network file access for my home's local network, so i can access files from various devices without having to manually copy them over. every potential client i have is perfectly fine with SMB 3.0... except for one (a playstation 2 with some homebrew software), which only accepts SMB 1.0 for whatever reason. i don't want to enable a deprecated file sharing protocol for the entire network, so i'd like to limit it to as close to the troublesome client as i can.

is it possible to set up some kind of "relay," like in the diagram, that presents a network share or a subset of it to the ps2 via SMB 1.0 while the rest of the network can use newer protocols?

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re: request for help with networking sorcery (a bit long) 

for a bit of extra explanation, i'm leaning toward having a separate machine as opposed to two samba daemons on the same machine because i want to use that in-between machine for a couple of other things at the same time, not just as a relay here

re: request for help with networking sorcery (a bit long) 

(while explaining what those other things are, i whisper "USB gadget mode" and am immediately attacked by wild dogs)

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