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diff --git a/docs/docbook/manpages/rpcclient.1.sgml b/docs/docbook/manpages/rpcclient.1.sgml
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@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@
<arg choice="opt">-U username[%password]</arg>
<arg choice="opt">-W workgroup</arg>
<arg choice="opt">-N</arg>
+ <arg choice="opt">-I destinationIP</arg>
<arg choice="req">server</arg>
</cmdsynopsis>
</refsynopsisdiv>
@@ -104,6 +105,23 @@
</varlistentry>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>-I IP-address</term>
+ <listitem><para><replaceable>IP address</replaceable> is the address of the server to connect to.
+ It should be specified in standard "a.b.c.d" notation. </para>
+
+ <para>Normally the client would attempt to locate a named
+ SMB/CIFS server by looking it up via the NetBIOS name resolution
+ mechanism described above in the <parameter>name resolve order</parameter>
+ parameter above. Using this parameter will force the client
+ to assume that the server is on the machine with the specified IP
+ address and the NetBIOS name component of the resource being
+ connected to will be ignored. </para>
+
+ <para>There is no default for this parameter. If not supplied,
+ it will be determined automatically by the client as described
+ above. </para></listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
<varlistentry>