Database link works for OS user "oracle" but not for other clients

My DBA connects as user1 to db1 and successfully queries over database link db2.
[oracle@linux19 ODA]$ sqlplus user1/****@db1
SQL*Plus: Release 11.2.0.3.0 Production on Fri Apr 12 07:39:49 2013
Copyright (c) 1982, 2011, Oracle. All rights reserved.
Connected to:
Oracle Database 11g Enterprise Edition Release 11.2.0.3.0 - 64bit Production
With the Partitioning, OLAP, Data Mining and Real Application Testing options
SQL> SELECT * FROM DUAL@db2;
D
XI log in from a Windows XP client and test the same database link with a ORA-12154 result.
C:\>sqlplus user1/****@db1
SQL*Plus: Release 11.2.0.1.0 Production on Fri Apr 12 11:18:18 2013
Copyright (c) 1982, 2010, Oracle. All rights reserved.
Connected to:
Oracle Database 11g Enterprise Edition Release 11.2.0.3.0 - 64bit Production
With the Partitioning, OLAP, Data Mining and Real Application Testing options
SQL> SELECT * FROM DUAL@db2;
SELECT * FROM [email protected]
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-12154: TNS:could not resolve the connect identifier specifiedI can create and successfully use database links by including the full TNS entry in the USING string.
What are some possible causes for the different results?
What additional information might I supply to help troubleshoot?
Thanks very much.
- Doug
Edited by: enquad on Apr 12, 2013 2:56 PM
changed "database link db1" to "database link db2" per comments by SB
Edited by: enquad on Apr 12, 2013 3:00 PM
Changed "user" to "OS user" in subject for clarity

enquad wrote:
Sorry gentlemen and SB, but my question is still not answered. It is a new question, which I have not found answered elsewhere.
To summarize:
SB97025 informs me that db1 is not a database link, but I never said that it was. It is the second database (anonymized as "db2") that is connected to through the database link "db2.mycompany.net".
SB97025 also wonders intriguingly if my DBA and I are we really connecting to the same database when we each connect to user1 on db1. Perhaps the Oracle server and my PC have TNSNAMES.ORA files that lead us to different databases for the same TNS alias? I do not believe this is the case, because my DBA created that user1 and that database link in the db1 database specifically for the purpose of doing this test and I see that same link when I connect to user1 on db1. Unless my DBA is spoofing me by creating user1 in two different databases - only one of which contains a working dblink named db2.mycompany.net - just for the purpose of throwing me off, I would have to conclude that he and I are actually connecting to the same database.There is no reason to "believe" (or not) that "this is the case". The entire point of SB's comment on that was to get you to verify. President Reagan famously said "trust but verify". He never worked as a DBA. I say "don't trust, just verify".
Obviously something is different. And at this point the most likely and easiest to confirm is that you and your DBA really are connecting to the same database, on the same host server, using the same link. And at this point all we really have is to trust your DBAs statement.
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Ed Stevens reminds me that db1 is acting as a client to db2 and so the solutions to the ORA-12154 are the same as for any client connection as listed on his blog (which I had already read), none of which solve my problem. Rembember, the DBA can use the database link, so by whatever means the TNS lookup is happening when he uses it, the correct connection description is being found. The question is not "why does this stinkin' database link not work"? It does work for the DBA.
Pierre wants to make sure I know that it is the Oracle server's TNSNAMES file that is the important thing, not my client's TNSNAMES file, which is true but not relevant to my problem and I was never so naive. He also says that I could try creating a database link by including the full TNS entry in the USING string, which does work as I had already mentioned in my original post.
Amar asks if my DBA can: sqlplus username/password@db2.
The answer is yes. The dba can use SQL*Plus to connect to db2 from the server hosting db1 and can connect to db1 from the server hosting db2. There is almost nothing my DBA cannot do.
None of the posters addressed the key information in my post, which was the different result my DBA and I get when using the same database link in the same schema on the same database. That AND the fact that my DBA is logged on to Linux Oracle serve as user "oracle" and I am logged in to my PC. Why should it matter to a database link which computer is running SQL*Plus or who the OS user is?
Also the GLOBAL_NAMES parameter is set to FALSE.
- Doug

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