FTP Setup on Mac Mini Server

Hello:
First off, I am new to Mac OSX Server and servers in general.  I am trying to set up FTP so I friends/family can upload to my server. Here is where I am at...
My server is connected to my Airport.  My Airport is the DHCP server, distributing a range of IPs to the devices.  I do not have a static IP, but am using dyndns to workaround this.  Note that even though FTP services are not working, Web services are.
Created a user on the server
Updated the ACL so the user had permissions to the Share
Enabled FTP service on server
Configured Airport for port forwarding to send to server based on IP
The issue i am having is that when i use a client (filezilla) i get a permission denied error on the share.  I can mount the share locally to my mac and edit with no issue.  Just not thru FTP.

Thank you for the reply!
I did not have the permissions set up there.  I made it so the user i created had group access.  Then i still had no luck.  The firewall is set up and i have port forwarding to the server on my router set up.  Then i found my issue...
On the FTP service, when i set up the share permissions, i forgot select protocol options and go to the FTP tab to enable the service.  Once i did that, i was golden.
Thank you for your help again!

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