Reviving an Obsolete NAS with Alt-F

I was recently handed down a D-Link DNS-323 NAS which I thought would be great for my brother to use. Although the stock D-Link firmware functions okay, it's officially EOL and there hasn't been an official update for it since 2013, and therefore using outdated protocols. I did some research and found the project Alt-F, an alternative custom firmware for the DNS-323, as well as several other D-Link NAS variants. Although the Alt-F project itself hasn't received an update since 2018, there's still community activity, and it still provides more modern features and standards compared to D-Link's stock firmware. Loading the Alt-F firmware is simple. Through D-Link's web UI, go to the firmware interface, and simply upload Alt-F's firmware binary. Once applied, it'll do it's thing for about 5 minutes, then it'll reboot automatically. After reboot, I was greeted with a first run wizard that allowed me to set up an admin password, user accounts, time zone, NTP, DNS, DHCP, and a static IP…