[mrdally204]

Since my last reply I've only made the situation worse   I'm attempting to remove all settings and addins to start from a fresh install of PTVL.  I know this isn't really testing your fix you put in for 4.0a and apologize for tinkering to the point of breaking that attempt before being able to test...    I'm installing right now and I noticed IPTV Manager is not part of the dependency addons being installed.  Is this addon no longer necessary as I believe it was part of the dependency list when I first installed PTVL.  I'm going to move forward as is and see what comes of it.

EDIT: 
Attempting to set up from as close to scratch as possible without uninstalling Kodi, my results were different this time.  I was able to configure my channels and the xml files were stored in the shared location as expected.  However, the channel lineup never populates in the TV section of Kodi. 
https://paste.kodi.tv/virahuhili.kodi

EDIT 2: This log was captured on the windows machine, functioning as the server. Channel line up was not populated on the server. I have not had a chance to reconfigure the clients yet.