>>>Tsk, tsk... just add a line copying the RO file from server to each local dir at start and access from there, Bill the big work part and send a szable percentage here ;-))
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>>Kind of a chicken-and-egg situation: if SMB1 is turned off, the XP boxes can't connect to the server to download the RO DBF in the first place...
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>If we assume that you don't need to update the application nor read-only DBF files, you could sneakernet them.

Or just use FTP as high class sneakers.