I\'m trying to connect to a schema on 11g (v11.2.0.1.0) from a PC with 9i (v9.2.0.1) client. It seems to connect fine to some schemas, but not this one - it comes back with
I had the same issue and put double quotes around the username and password and it worked:
create public database link "opps" identified by "opps" using 'TEST';