I have a problem. The biggest part of the problem is that I'm not a system administrator, but I'm trying to get beyond that.

I'm living deep in Siberia and my friend and I thought we would start a print shop. We bought some cheap printers, one in Irkutsk and the other one in Ulan-Ude, and had them shipped to our little village halfway to Norilsk. It's pretty impossible to get anything here, so we're happy with what we have, and changing hardware is pretty hard.

In the office are some computers that are Windows 10. There's also one lonely Windows XP machine. I can find a driver for one of the printers that runs on XP, but I can't find a Windows 10 driver. And then on the other hand, it looks like XP serves only SMB 1.x, and Windows 10 responds only to SMB 2.x. And then there are all these concerned warnings on the web about trying to get away from SMB altogether because of security issues...

Here's where Linux comes in. I'm very acquainted with Linux, but there are some questions, nonetheless. I am thinking of setting up a Debian box that serves the one printer that is really old. The first question is...

... can I run SMB 1.x and SMB 2.x at the same time on a Linux box?

(Another questions is: is there another way to serve the printer and some disks from Debian to Windows boxen without using SMB?)

Thanks for your help.

While I don't know much about Samba, you could run two Samba installations on two machines, e.g. two VMs. Or in Docker containers.

Or use CUPS. If you share the printers correctly, Windows 10 can connect. For Windows XP, you need to research a little I guess.

I wish you best of luck.