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Hi,
Many times I take my laptop to the company and connect to their wireless connection and printer.But then I observe some strange behaviours from 2 employees.One of them asked me if my printer is connected to their network printer then he went away.Another is an IT employee who always telling me about websites to open my internet wireless connection and then go to his laptop and then return to me...

Does my computer become opened to the network administrator because I joined his network?.If he try to enter my computer does he see the authentication login dialog?.

In another company an employee told me that he can see what employees doing on their laptop when they connect through the internet because he has an administrator account is this true?.

If it is true is there any way to avoid these people from entering our laptop while we are connected through their network?.:4-dontkno
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It depends on the setup of the network, If its just simple plug and play with no domain login then its harder for the tech to see what you are doing. But saying that the sever will store logs that will store information about the PC/laptops MAC address, current IP, websites visited, data accessed on the network.
If you are required to login to the network then the tech guy will know almost everything about what your doing. But he may or may not have full access to your PC, he will be able to open shared files and folders on your PC but nothing else. (i think)

But when you join a network like that your PC adopts the network security settings, this is in order you use to function on the network.
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