How to uplink more than 4 computers on a 4 port router

[nartac]

I was visiting my sister last week and had this problem. She has an SMC 7004BR router and has 3 computers hooked up to the router along with a printer server (computers 1-3 to port 1-3 and printer server to port 4). She told me that the router support up to 253 computers, which the manufacturer claims, and asked me how to hook up her 4th computer. I had a spare d-link DSS 8+ switch, which I figure if I connect say the 4th port on the router to the uplink port on the d-link switch with a crossover cable, and plug the 4th computer and the printer server to the d-link switch, this should work. Unfortunately, when I tried to get internet on the 4th computer it did not work nor the printer server when I tried to print something from computer #1. Thinking it might be the cable, I changed to a patch cable but this does not work neither. Anyone have any idea why my method did not work? Any idea how I can hook up the 4 port router to serve more than 4 lan components (computers + print server)

[Tim Dorr Veteran]

can the computers on the switch see the ones on the router and vice versa?

[Vlad]

Uplink port = no crossover cable needed. Just take normal CAT5 cable. Also, if you're using a hub and *not* a router, you need to have all computers on the same subnet.

[nartac]

timdorr, no, the computers 1-3 can see each other but computer 4, which is on the switch can't see any of the computers.

Vlad, as I stated above, I did switched out the crossover cable and used the CAT5 patch cable and it did not work neither. The SMC 7004BR is a router and each (computers + printer server) have an assigned ip (ie. 192.168.123.XXX) with same subnet..ie. 255.255.255.0

FYI, two computers are running Win2K and 2 are running WinXP. I seriously doubt it's an OS issue but just in case someone wonders.

And yes, the switch works fine. It was working on my system when I took it off.