Originally posted by bang_dba
I Dont had any user by name BALKE....

You get "ORA-00942: table or view does not exist"
when u create a PUBLIC synonym

create public synonym xxx for th.ddf

SELECT * FROM XXX

ORA-00942: table or view does not exist
Yes indeed on 8.x it throws this misleading error. But 9.x no probs, the error is relevent.

Abhay.