Setting up ftp access to my site

I am using DW CS4 to create 3 low traffic sites and am serving the sites from my home desktop iMac. I setup Virtual Hosting to allow access to my sites. I am now trying to allow others to edit parts of the site and I believe that I must enable ftp access to the site. I have enabled port forwarding of port 21 on my router but I am having problems. I do the following to check ftp connection.
In Terminal I enter "telnet www.mywebsitename.com 21" The response comes back "Trying (myIPaddress)...
telnet: connect to address (myIPaddress): Operation timed out
telnet: Unable to connect to remote host"
I am reasonably sure that I must get this to work before I attempt to redefine the remote site definition using ftp within Dreamweaver CS4.
Please be relatively simple with suggestions or questions, I am well aware of the fact that I am a bit of a novice trying to do rather complex things.

Thanks for your help, I now have ftp access to my site working OK. I
have redefined the site using ftp in the Dreamweaver site definitions
and I can upload changes with no problem. However, i am now trying to
setup InContext editing capability to the site. W hen I go thru the
steps to add a site to the InContext Admin section the first steps in
the process work fine. I am able to fill out the ftp settings with my
username and password and when I test the settings it comes back that
it is able to connect to the site. The next step is where I run into
problems. When I try to add the assets I get an error that says
either the folder does not exist or the user does not have the proper
permissions to open the root folder. I have attached a screen shot of
the actual error message if it helps. This is the odd thing. I can
use the same username and password with another ftp Client program and
I have complete access to the root folder and all the files in it. It
seems that if I have adequate permissions to view and change the root
folder with a generic ftp client program I ought to be able to open it
thru the incontext setup. By the way the username and password I am
using to try to get this initially setup is the administrator username
and password for my server, so it seems to me there should not be a
permissions problem.
Am I missing something obvious?
Steve
Here is the error log. Note: www.sonautosales.com is the name of
the root folder on the server.

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