How to determine if a file is available on a machine.

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BHarris
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How to determine if a file is available on a machine.

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Presently, I am trying to find out how to determine if a file is available on a user's machine that is on the same network/server as my machine. For example, before allowing certain privileges to that user, I need to know if that user has updated his/her antivirus definition, and thus I need to find out that these updated files are on the user's machine. If not, I will provide the user with a link to get the updated files and so forth. Does anyone have any idea as to how to go about doing this? Also, does anyone know how to determine if a machine is using a wireless connection based on that user's machine's MAC address?
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To my knowledge you

1) Cannot access the users files
2) Cannot read the users files
3) Cannot force installation of the users files

using php. To my understanding that would be an extremely large security flaw.
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