diff --git a/docs/htmldocs/smbclient.1.html b/docs/htmldocs/smbclient.1.html
index 69d29ab07cc..f0a6ced61b6 100644
--- a/docs/htmldocs/smbclient.1.html
+++ b/docs/htmldocs/smbclient.1.html
@@ -228,6 +228,7 @@ user "fred"
with password "secret"
, you would specify.
-U fred%secret
on the command line. Note that there are no spaces around the percent
symbol.
+
You can specify a domain name as part of the username by using a username of the form "DOMAIN/user" or "DOMAIN\user".
If you specify the password as part of username then the -N option
(suppress password prompt) is assumed.
If you specify the password as a parameter AND as part of username
diff --git a/docs/manpages/smbclient.1 b/docs/manpages/smbclient.1
index 7f01392f186..260cb58c73a 100644
--- a/docs/manpages/smbclient.1
+++ b/docs/manpages/smbclient.1
@@ -259,6 +259,9 @@ to set the environment variable to be \f(CWUSER=username%password\fP so
that a password is not passed on the command line (where it may be
seen by the ps command)\&.
.IP
+You can specify a domain name as part of the username by using a
+username of the form "DOMAIN/user" or "DOMAIN\euser"\&.
+.IP
If the service you are connecting to requires a password, it can be
supplied using the \fB-U\fP option, by appending a percent symbol ("%")
then the password to username\&. For example, to attach to a service as
diff --git a/docs/yodldocs/smbclient.1.yo b/docs/yodldocs/smbclient.1.yo
index 01cc9ee6fc4..8b42f281ff9 100644
--- a/docs/yodldocs/smbclient.1.yo
+++ b/docs/yodldocs/smbclient.1.yo
@@ -263,14 +263,14 @@ to set the environment variable to be tt(USER=username%password) so
that a password is not passed on the command line (where it may be
seen by the ps command).
+You can specify a domain name as part of the username by using a
+username of the form "DOMAIN/user" or "DOMAIN\user".
+
If the service you are connecting to requires a password, it can be
supplied using the link(bf(-U))(minusU) option, by appending a percent symbol ("%")
then the password to username. For example, to attach to a service as
user tt("fred") with password tt("secret"), you would specify. nl()
-You can specify a domain name as part of the username by using a
-username of the form "DOMAIN/user" or "DOMAIN\user".
-
tt(-U fred%secret) nl()
on the command line. Note that there are no spaces around the percent