SQL Server Agent Job cannot access datafile - sql-server

I have a an SSIS solution that runs fine in BIDS. However, once I try to deploy it to the server and execute through SQL Server Agent, it fails with:
Cannot access datafile...
Details:
server: localhost that I built
sysadmin: my local domain account is the sysadmin using Windows Authentication
filepath: my local C:\Users\me\Downloads
I have tried mapping my login to a credential and using that credential as a proxy, but it still fails.
Can someone help with a step-by-step solution as to how to make sure the SQL Server Agent account has access to write and read files on my local file directory?

look that:
What is the service account for SQL Server Agent? Is has privilege to access operation sytem?

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I have a SQL Server service account: domain\sqlservice.
This account is running both SQL Server service and SQL Server Agent Service.
This account has read/write permission to a file share: \\fileserver\Path1, and from the SQL Server and SQL Server Agent jobs, we are able to write to this folder path using the service account (using master..xp_cmdshell. xp_cmdshell is enabled).
This permission got removed by mistake, now we have added it back.
I can use the service account domain\sqlservice to browse to \\fileserver\Path1 and create files and folders (using Windows Explorer), but SQL Server and SQL Server Agent jobs still could not.
I have restarted the SQL Server Agent service (I believe this is account used to access the file share when running the SQL Server Agent jobs).
But it still failed to access the path - I get an access denied error.
I think I will need to restart the SQL Server service to fix this issue (waiting for my maintenance window now).
I want to understand it better, can someone give me some hint on why SQL Server Agent job is related to the SQL Server services running account? And what is the relationship between SQL Server Agent job service account and SQL Server service account? Are we still utilize this account to access fileshare defined in the SQL Server Agent job?
Thank you all very much
It looks like it takes time for the service account to get updated.
So I rerun the task in 10 hours
and task runs fine.
So I guess you have two options.
wait for the token or something expire and renewed.
you can restart the service.
#Charlieface’s comment explains the reason:
Double check that SQL Server is definitely still running under that service account, as well as which account has now received permissions to the share. The permissions for xp_cmdshell depend on whether the session has sa rights, see learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/relational-databases/…. Quite why you are using xp_cmdshell is a different question: it has major security implications, and should probably be converted into a SQL Agent job written in Powershell.

SSIS Excel connection credentials

There's a file stored in SharePoint that I want to use as data source in my SSIS package that will be run by SQL Server Agent.
The SQL Server Agent uses an account that doesn't have access to this file, so I want the Excel connection to use different login credentials (you can specify them in OLEDB connections). Is there any way to do this?
I know that the simplest way would be to just grant the permissions to the account that SQL Server Agent uses, but our responsible person is away. Changing the credentials in SQL Server Configuration Manager is not an option.
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You can set up a proxy account that has the appropriate permissions to the location of the excel file and then set the job to run as that proxy account.
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms190698%28v=sql.105%29.aspx?f=255&MSPPError=-2147217396

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I'm moving a small local database in SQL Server 2012 to Azure for hosting. But after entering the host database server connection parameters I always get a "Login Failed for user,...." error, referencing the name of the local database to be created on the server.
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Set up a firewall exception for my local IP address.
Confirmed my server administrator user name and password
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SQL Agent Job running SSIS package using SQL Authentication

I am running SQL Server 2014
I am trying to set up a scheduled SQL Agent job that runs an SSIS package and I need it to use a SQL Authentication login in order to access all the applications/servers the SSIS package accesses.
I have created a Credential that is mapped to the SQL Authentication login and connected it to a Proxy which the SQL Agent runs as when accessing the SSIS package, however, the job fails with an error message:
Unable to start execution of step 1 (reason: Could not get proxy data for proxy_id = 1). The step failed.
I have confirmed that:
I can access all servers/applications using the SQL Authentication account
The SSIS package connections are configured for SQL Authentication
I can run the SSIS package manually using the SQL Authentication fine
All accessed SQL Server Databases are configured for both Windows AD and SQL authentication login
When I create the SQL Server Agent Job, the step that runs the SSIS package has an option for the SQL Server Authentication login but the option is greyed out and I cannot select it:
I feel like I am missing a very obvious step but it's eluding me, any assistance will be appreciated.
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How does SQL Server Agent read SSIS Package Connection?

I have SSIS packages that have connections that use project params(only database and server), the actual login is set to windows authentication.
So when a SQL Server Agent runs that job step(package) how does it connect with windows authentication? Does it use it's own service account? If so as long as the service account has the same permissions as my windows account it shouldn't have issues right? All the objects in the SSIS packages are tables stored in that same server instance.
If I had external objects that use tables on different servers and such would it encounter issues then?
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