Well, some more info about the server is needed.
Is it just a Mac OS X client, without additional software? Or a Mac OS
X Server? Or something else? And which version?
Just a connection between 2 eMacs running 10.4.7 (not server)
AFP server has its own configuration, and complies with a completely
different protocol, with its own idiosyncrasies. ;-)
So, one can't infer the user's capabilities under FTP from his
capabilities under AFP.