Help to find the best samba driven directories structure

Hi,

I'm installing a new OMV nas for a friend, and I have to decide about the way data will be stored.
It has to be user-friendly, and completly transparent for beginners user (no SSH, no FTP, ... only windows samba shares)

The NAS is build of 1x SSD 256GB and 4x HDD 3TB.
I partionned the SSD to a 30GB system partition (OMV_OS), and the remain space to another partition (OMV_DATA)
OMV_DATA partition is used mainly for Deluge/PyLoad downloading and seeding directory, and temporary folder.
Each HDD have only one big partition.

My main concern is about file copy between downlad folder and target directory (movie, tvshows...)
I need to find a way to achieve server side copy, because my friend use only WiFi on his laptop, so copying a 10GB movie take a loooong time (3MB/s)
From my understanding, server-side copy works only if source and target are located under the same samba share.

So I though about something like this:

OMV_DATA (mounted as /data and smb shared as [DATA])
    /Downloads
    /Videos
    /Pictures
    /Music
    /Share

HDD0x (mounted as /mnt/HDD0x)
    /data
        /Videos
        /Pictures
        /Music

As OMV_DATA is limited in space, I need to use symlinks or Greyhole to move files in the big drives.

• So is using only one smb share [DATA] could allow me server-side copy in that case?
• I will need to declare a share folder for each subdirectories (with privileges and permissions)
• Then create a samba share for [DATA] and each of its subfolder ([VIDEOS], [PICTURES]...) as greyhole landing zone need to be samba shares.
• Only [DATA] will be browsable
• but... will it works? How samba deals with share containings share?

Thanks

I just made a quick test.
samba overrides sub-folder privileges.
My [DATA] share has Read/Write privileges for all users, and [Videos] only Read.

When I access videos folder via \\OMV\DATA\Videos, I can make write operations!
But using \\OMV\Videos, only read permissions.

So sharing the whole [DATA] folder is dangerous.
Maybe make it hidden, just for maintenance stuffs...

ok, thanks for the response.
I think I will go with a "/" share to the admin.

I'll also investigate JDownloader and see if there is a plugin to move completed downloads to another folder, according to user defined tags (like utorrent)