Access is denied for network shared folder, if I try to access it through SYSTEM user account

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I have developed one windows service which launch an application and this application run from SYSTEM account. In this application i try to access network shared folder. Shared folder has access permission set to Everyone. But when i try to enumerate through shared folder(with UNC path) error code is returned as 5. I created other sample application and tried to access shared folder i was able to read the content of shared folder as application runs as Local User(my username). I did some digging and found that this is possible with Active Directory but i don't want to use it. Some applications like antivirus software are able to scan network shared folder through SYSTEM user account without Active Directory. So My question: Is there any way to access network shared folder through SYSTEM user account without using active Directory?

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