Direct Paths and Multiple Users

[mwswartwout]

I've got my setup working with Direct Paths for my primary user using substitution in PKC. Now I'm trying to add a Kodi profile for a second plex user and get that working with direct paths.

What I've done:

1. Created a 2nd Kodi profile.
2. Logged into PKC on that 2nd Kodi profile with Plex user 2's credentials.
3. Configured the path substitution in PKC and verified that the expected substituted path is available in File Manager, same as the primary user.

What I'm seeing:

1. The library is syncing properly and the media shows up in Kodi.
2. Playback does not work.

I noticed that when I'm logged into Plex as the 2nd user they appear to not have access to the full filepaths of the media. So if I'm logged in as the primary user and I choose "Get Info" on a TV episode it will show the file as: /tv/$SHOW_NAME/Season 01/$EPISODE.ext. But when I'm logged in as the second user the file is just: $EPISODE.ext.

So I think what is happening is that the second user doesn't see the full filepath, and therefore the PKC substitution doesn't work correctly. Is there a way to give the second user access to the full filepaths in Plex? Or is there a way that PKC can somehow work around this?