How can I enable ping between two Windows 11 machines

[Microsoft Windows]

I have spent many hours trying to solve what I thought was a printer configuration problem. It turns out that there is something more fundamental going wrong. I can ping my Epson printer from my Windows 11 Pro desktop and a Windows 10 Home laptop, but not from my new Windows 11 Pro laptop. The computers can all ping each other except that the two Windows 11 machines cannot ping each other in either direction. All computers can ping themselves and 8.8.8.8. All have the same 255.255.252.0 subnet mask and all addresses start with 192.168.32 or 192.168.33. The gateway is at 192.168.33.1.The

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