Linking

I'm trying to set up a link (hard or symbolic) in the root of a users FTP account.

I tried:
ln -s /home/dasilv5299/domains/kmdtuning.com/private_html/ /home/dasilv5299

And while it does create the link, when I try to access it through the FTP client, it returns an error saying that it was not found.

More specifically:

COMMAND:> CWD ssl_folder
550 ssl_folder: No such file or directory

I then tried:
ln -d /home/dasilv5299/domains/kmdtuning.com/private_html/ /home/dasilv5299

and this returned "ln: creating hard link `/home/dasilv5299//private_html' to `/home/dasilv5299/domains/kmdtuning.com/private_html/': Operation not permitted"

I have no idea what's wrong here. Anyone have any advice?

Thanks in advance.