There are various ways to work together in a network based on Windows 11. The simplest is to set up a shared workgroup, a kind of team of computers with equal rights.

I have two laptops, \\\\laptop1 and \\\\laptop2, connected via a D-Link DI-624 rev. C router. Let's say, for simplicity's sake, they're wired, although getting this working with 802.11 is the goal ...