HELP grant permission not working

Question

I have created a new user e.g. johnsmith like so
create user johnsmith profile default identified by johnsmith
default tablespace users
temporary tablespace temp
account unlock;
grant connect to johnsmith;
GRANT CREATE SESSION to johnsmith;
grant select on project to johnsmith;
grant select on v_emp_proj to johnsmith;
create synonym project for johnsmith.v_emp_proj;
first of all creating the synonym fails saying name used by existing object but ive tried to drop the synonym and it does not exist!!
then logging in as johnsmith and selecting * from project says table does not exist???
any ideas anyone? thanks

Answer 1

WOOHOOO ive done it, the synonym needed to be created on the johnsmith account to system.project!!!!
thanks everyone but there is 1 more problem, as access is restricted to the view i have had to query by emp_id, i do not want this visable in the view is it possible to hide the column in the output? here is the view...........
create view v_emp_proj
as SELECT ep_emp_id as EmployeeID, proj_id as ProjectID, proj_name as ProjectName,
proj_ou_id as OrgUnit, proj_planned_start_dt as Planned_Start_Date,
proj_planned_finish_dt as Planned_Finish_Date, proj_actual_start_dt as Actual_Start_Date
FROM employee_on_project, project
WHERE ep_emp_id =1;
i do not want emp_id displayed at all but i need it to query