I cannot access the tc hard drive

Greetings, I cannot access my hard drive after making some adjustments in the port settings. I have a pc. Am I missing something?

OK.
So, let me see if I understood correctly.
1) I bridge the ISP modem (in the meanwhile, I found how to do it)
In this way the router should work as a simple modem and "forward" data to the TC through the ethernet cable without doing much. Is it more or less so?
2) I set the TC with PPPoE connection with my username and password provided by the ISP for generic modems (I managed to found also these data)
At this point it should work, right?
Thanks a lot!

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