diff --git a/src/main/ipc/runtime-environment-connectivity-handlers.ts b/src/main/ipc/runtime-environment-connectivity-handlers.ts
index 827b76c08e5..b1f26a2d385 100644
--- a/src/main/ipc/runtime-environment-connectivity-handlers.ts
+++ b/src/main/ipc/runtime-environment-connectivity-handlers.ts
@@ -30,7 +30,6 @@ import {
 import {
   clearRuntimeEnvironmentManualDisconnect,
   isRuntimeEnvironmentManuallyDisconnected,
-  markRuntimeEnvironmentManuallyDisconnected,
   RUNTIME_MANUALLY_DISCONNECTED_MESSAGE
 } from './runtime-environment-manual-disconnect'
 import {
@@ -40,6 +39,11 @@ import {
 import { publicRuntimeEnvironmentWithHostKey } from './runtime-environment-host-key'
 import { withWslOrcadAccountEnv } from '../wsl/wsl-orcad-account-env'
 import { clearSshCredentialDeclinedForEnvironment } from '../ssh/ssh-credential-decline'
+import {
+  disconnectManagedHostOfEnvironmentForUser,
+  disconnectRuntimeEnvironmentForUser,
+  liftSshUserDisconnectForEnvironment
+} from './ssh-host-user-disconnect'
 import {
   observeWslOrcadHostResponse,
   wslOrcadHostSupports
@@ -141,13 +145,16 @@ export function registerRuntimeEnvironmentConnectivityHandlers({
   )
   ipcMain.handle(
     'runtimeEnvironments:disconnect',
-    (_event, args: { selector: string }): { disconnected: PublicKnownRuntimeEnvironment } => {
+    async (
+      _event,
+      args: { selector: string }
+    ): Promise<{ disconnected: PublicKnownRuntimeEnvironment }> => {
       const environment = resolveEnvironment(getUserDataPath(), args.selector)
-      markRuntimeEnvironmentManuallyDisconnected(environment.id)
-      invalidateTransport(environment.id)
+      const runtimeLayer = { userDataPath: getUserDataPath(), invalidateTransport }
+      disconnectRuntimeEnvironmentForUser(environment.id, runtimeLayer)
       closeLegacySelectorTransport(args.selector, environment.id)
-      // Retain disconnected evidence for renderers that missed the teardown event.
-      getRuntimeEnvironmentStatusOwner(getUserDataPath(), environment.id)
+      // Why: otherwise Settings keeps showing the managed host's SSH connection as live (#30085).
+      await disconnectManagedHostOfEnvironmentForUser(environment, runtimeLayer)
       return { disconnected: redactRuntimeEnvironment(environment) }
     }
   )
@@ -161,6 +168,7 @@ export function registerRuntimeEnvironmentConnectivityHandlers({
       assertWslHostReachable(environment)
       clearRuntimeEnvironmentManualDisconnect(environment.id)
       clearSshCredentialDeclinedForEnvironment(environment)
+      await liftSshUserDisconnectForEnvironment(environment)
       await connectThroughOwningService(environment)
       return getRuntimeEnvironmentStatus(getUserDataPath(), environment.id, args.timeoutMs, {
         reconnect: true
diff --git a/src/main/ipc/runtime-environment-managed-host-disconnect.test.ts b/src/main/ipc/runtime-environment-managed-host-disconnect.test.ts
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..3862f99c9ee
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/main/ipc/runtime-environment-managed-host-disconnect.test.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,121 @@
+import { afterEach, beforeEach, describe, expect, it, vi } from 'vitest'
+
+const hoisted = vi.hoisted(() => {
+  const environment: Record<string, unknown> = {}
+  return {
+    handlers: new Map<string, (event: unknown, args: unknown) => unknown>(),
+    environment,
+    teardown: vi.fn(),
+    invalidate: vi.fn(),
+    connectHost: vi.fn()
+  }
+})
+
+vi.mock('electron', () => ({
+  ipcMain: {
+    handle: (channel: string, handler: (event: unknown, args: unknown) => unknown) =>
+      hoisted.handlers.set(channel, handler)
+  }
+}))
+vi.mock('../../shared/runtime-environment-store', async (importOriginal) => ({
+  ...(await importOriginal<object>()),
+  resolveEnvironment: () => hoisted.environment,
+  listEnvironments: () => [hoisted.environment]
+}))
+vi.mock('./runtime-environment-request-connections', async (importOriginal) => ({
+  ...(await importOriginal<object>()),
+  getRuntimeEnvironmentStatusOwner: () => ({ activate: vi.fn() }),
+  closeRemoteRuntimeRequestConnection: vi.fn()
+}))
+vi.mock('./runtime-environment-host-service-ops', () => ({
+  connectThroughOwningService: vi.fn(async () => {}),
+  removeThroughOwningService: vi.fn()
+}))
+vi.mock('./runtime-environment-transport-routing', () => ({
+  callRuntimeEnvironment: vi.fn(),
+  getRuntimeEnvironmentStatus: vi.fn(async () => ({ ok: true }))
+}))
+vi.mock('./ssh-session-teardown', () => ({ disconnectRegisteredSshTarget: hoisted.teardown }))
+vi.mock('../ssh/ssh-target-registry', async (importOriginal) => ({
+  ...(await importOriginal<object>()),
+  connectRegisteredSshTarget: hoisted.connectHost
+}))
+
+import { registerRuntimeEnvironmentConnectivityHandlers } from './runtime-environment-connectivity-handlers'
+import {
+  clearRuntimeEnvironmentManualDisconnect,
+  isRuntimeEnvironmentManuallyDisconnected
+} from './runtime-environment-manual-disconnect'
+import { isSshUserDisconnected, resetSshUserDisconnectsForTests } from '../ssh/ssh-user-disconnect'
+
+const deployment = {
+  kind: 'ssh',
+  requestId: 'request-1',
+  sshTargetId: 'ssh-1',
+  sshTargetGeneration: 1,
+  localPort: 41000,
+  remotePort: 6768
+}
+
+describe("the status bar's Disconnect of a server", () => {
+  beforeEach(() => {
+    hoisted.handlers.clear()
+    hoisted.teardown.mockReset().mockResolvedValue(undefined)
+    hoisted.invalidate.mockReset()
+    hoisted.connectHost.mockReset().mockResolvedValue(undefined)
+    resetSshUserDisconnectsForTests()
+    registerRuntimeEnvironmentConnectivityHandlers({
+      // oxlint-disable-next-line typescript/consistent-type-assertions -- SAFETY: these handlers read only store.getSettings(), which this stub provides.
+      store: { getSettings: () => ({}) } as never,
+      getUserDataPath: () => '/tmp/orca-user-data',
+      invalidateTransport: hoisted.invalidate
+    })
+  })
+
+  afterEach(() => {
+    clearRuntimeEnvironmentManualDisconnect('env-1')
+  })
+
+  function invoke(channel: string): Promise<unknown> {
+    return Promise.resolve(hoisted.handlers.get(channel)!(null, { selector: 'env-1' }))
+  }
+
+  it('also disconnects the SSH host a managed server runs on, so Settings agrees', async () => {
+    hoisted.environment = { id: 'env-1', endpoints: [], orcadDeployment: deployment }
+
+    await invoke('runtimeEnvironments:disconnect')
+
+    expect(isRuntimeEnvironmentManuallyDisconnected('env-1')).toBe(true)
+    expect(hoisted.teardown).toHaveBeenCalledWith('ssh-1')
+    expect(isSshUserDisconnected('ssh-1')).toBe(true)
+    expect(hoisted.invalidate).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(1)
+  })
+
+  it('leaves SSH alone for a server that is not managed over SSH', async () => {
+    hoisted.environment = { id: 'env-1', endpoints: [] }
+
+    await invoke('runtimeEnvironments:disconnect')
+
+    expect(hoisted.teardown).not.toHaveBeenCalled()
+    expect(isSshUserDisconnected('ssh-1')).toBe(false)
+  })
+
+  it("is lifted by the status bar's Connect, through the host's own Connect", async () => {
+    hoisted.environment = { id: 'env-1', endpoints: [], orcadDeployment: deployment }
+    await invoke('runtimeEnvironments:disconnect')
+
+    await invoke('runtimeEnvironments:connect')
+
+    expect(isRuntimeEnvironmentManuallyDisconnected('env-1')).toBe(false)
+    // That connect republishes the managed verdict and restores the host's port forwards.
+    expect(hoisted.connectHost).toHaveBeenCalledWith('ssh-1')
+  })
+
+  it('reconnects a server whose host the user never disconnected without dialing the host', async () => {
+    hoisted.environment = { id: 'env-1', endpoints: [], orcadDeployment: deployment }
+
+    await invoke('runtimeEnvironments:connect')
+
+    expect(hoisted.connectHost).not.toHaveBeenCalled()
+  })
+})
diff --git a/src/main/ipc/ssh-app-shutdown.test.ts b/src/main/ipc/ssh-app-shutdown.test.ts
index 336a447d4aa..f9e53778f24 100644
--- a/src/main/ipc/ssh-app-shutdown.test.ts
+++ b/src/main/ipc/ssh-app-shutdown.test.ts
@@ -109,7 +109,7 @@ describe('SSH IPC handlers', () => {
     for (let tick = 0; tick < 5; tick++) {
       await Promise.resolve()
     }
-    expect(mockConnectionManager.connect).toHaveBeenCalledWith(target)
+    expect(mockConnectionManager.connect).toHaveBeenCalledWith(target, { probe: true })
 
     quitTeardownStartGate.tryStart({ preventDefault() {} })
     const shutdown = beginSshShutdown()
diff --git a/src/main/ipc/ssh-connect-flow.ts b/src/main/ipc/ssh-connect-flow.ts
index dc40c72c633..fec364318d6 100644
--- a/src/main/ipc/ssh-connect-flow.ts
+++ b/src/main/ipc/ssh-connect-flow.ts
@@ -26,8 +26,13 @@ import { abandonDecisionTransport } from './ssh-session-teardown'
 import { awaitTargetLifecycle } from './ssh-target-lifecycle-queue'
 import { startLegacyRelayBridge } from '../ssh/legacy-relay-bridge/legacy-relay-bridge-registry'
 import { clearSshCredentialDeclined } from '../ssh/ssh-credential-decline'
+import { createSshUserDisconnectedError, isSshUserDisconnected } from '../ssh/ssh-user-disconnect'
+import {
+  liftSshHostUserDisconnect,
+  resumeRuntimeEnvironmentStatus
+} from './ssh-host-user-disconnect'
 
-/** `automatic`: no user asked for this connect, so a cancelled sign-in stays cancelled. */
+/** `automatic`: no user asked for this connect, so a cancelled sign-in or a Disconnect stays. */
 export async function connectTarget(
   targetId: string,
   options: { automatic?: boolean } = {}
@@ -37,9 +42,24 @@ export async function connectTarget(
     appendFileSync(e2eProbePath, `${JSON.stringify(targetId)}\n`)
     throw new Error('e2e_forbidden_local_ssh_connect')
   }
-  if (!options.automatic) {
-    clearSshCredentialDeclined(targetId)
+  if (options.automatic) {
+    // Why before any publish: the host must keep reading "disconnected", not a failed connect.
+    if (isSshUserDisconnected(targetId)) {
+      const label = getSshTargetRegistryStore()?.getTarget(targetId)?.label ?? targetId
+      throw createSshUserDisconnectedError(label)
+    }
+    return admitConnect(targetId)
   }
+  clearSshCredentialDeclined(targetId)
+  const liftedEnvironments = liftSshHostUserDisconnect(targetId)
+  try {
+    return await admitConnect(targetId)
+  } finally {
+    resumeRuntimeEnvironmentStatus(liftedEnvironments)
+  }
+}
+
+async function admitConnect(targetId: string): Promise<SshConnectionState> {
   // Why: fence callers that entered before a same-turn disconnect/reset but resume after its cleanup.
   const admissionAuthority = getSshProviderAuthority(targetId)
   await awaitTargetLifecycle(targetId)
diff --git a/src/main/ipc/ssh-connection-handlers.ts b/src/main/ipc/ssh-connection-handlers.ts
index 152e63b317d..b61b2395252 100644
--- a/src/main/ipc/ssh-connection-handlers.ts
+++ b/src/main/ipc/ssh-connection-handlers.ts
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ import {
 import { connectTarget } from './ssh-connect-flow'
 import { connectionManager } from './ssh-ipc-context'
 import { getPublicSshState } from './ssh-renderer-broadcast'
-import { disconnectRegisteredSshTarget } from './ssh-session-teardown'
+import { disconnectSshHostForUser } from './ssh-host-user-disconnect'
 import { errorMessage } from '../../shared/error-message'
 import { clearSshCredentialDeclined, isSshCredentialDeclined } from '../ssh/ssh-credential-decline'
 
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ export function registerSshConnectionHandlers(): void {
   })
 
   ipcMain.handle('ssh:disconnect', async (_event, args: { targetId: string }) => {
-    await disconnectRegisteredSshTarget(args.targetId)
+    await disconnectSshHostForUser(args.targetId)
   })
 
   ipcMain.handle('ssh:getState', (_event, args: { targetId: string }) => {
@@ -65,7 +65,8 @@ export function registerSshConnectionHandlers(): void {
     const probe = runSshTestConnectionProbe(args.targetId, async () => {
       // Why: a probe transport opened after the shutdown drain would outlive orderly teardown.
       assertSshConnectsNotFenced()
-      const conn = await connectionManager!.connect(target)
+      // Why: a test of a disconnected host may dial it, but must leave it disconnected.
+      const conn = await connectionManager!.connect(target, { probe: true })
       const state = conn.getState()
       await connectionManager!.disconnect(args.targetId)
       return state
diff --git a/src/main/ipc/ssh-host-user-disconnect.test.ts b/src/main/ipc/ssh-host-user-disconnect.test.ts
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..eaf567bc95a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/main/ipc/ssh-host-user-disconnect.test.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,151 @@
+import { afterEach, beforeEach, describe, expect, it, vi } from 'vitest'
+
+const mocks = await vi.hoisted(async () => {
+  const { createSshIpcMocks } = await import('./ssh-ipc-module-mocks')
+  return createSshIpcMocks()
+})
+const runtime = vi.hoisted(() => {
+  const environments: unknown[] = []
+  return { environments, activate: vi.fn(), getStatusOwner: vi.fn(), invalidate: vi.fn() }
+})
+
+vi.mock('../ssh/ssh-config-host-picker', () => mocks.sshConfigHostPicker)
+vi.mock('electron', () => mocks.electron)
+vi.mock('../ssh/ssh-connection-store', () => mocks.sshConnectionStore)
+vi.mock('./ssh-host-server-connect', () => mocks.hostServerConnect)
+vi.mock('../ssh/ssh-connection-manager', () => mocks.sshConnectionManager)
+vi.mock('../ssh/ssh-channel-multiplexer', () => mocks.sshChannelMultiplexer)
+vi.mock('../ssh/ssh-port-forward', () => mocks.sshPortForward)
+vi.mock('../ssh/ssh-port-scanner', () => mocks.sshPortScanner)
+vi.mock('../../shared/runtime-environment-store', async (importOriginal) => ({
+  ...(await importOriginal<object>()),
+  listEnvironments: () => runtime.environments
+}))
+vi.mock('./runtime-environment-request-connections', async (importOriginal) => ({
+  ...(await importOriginal<object>()),
+  getRuntimeEnvironmentStatusOwner: runtime.getStatusOwner
+}))
+vi.mock('./runtime-environments', () => ({
+  invalidateRuntimeEnvironmentTransport: runtime.invalidate
+}))
+
+import type { SshConnectionState, SshTarget } from '../../shared/ssh-types'
+import {
+  clearRuntimeEnvironmentManualDisconnect,
+  isRuntimeEnvironmentManuallyDisconnected
+} from './runtime-environment-manual-disconnect'
+import { isSshUserDisconnected } from '../ssh/ssh-user-disconnect'
+import { createSshIpcHarness } from './ssh-ipc-test-harness'
+
+const { mockSshStore, mockConnectionManager } = mocks
+
+const target: SshTarget = {
+  id: 'ssh-1',
+  label: 'Server',
+  host: 'example.com',
+  port: 22,
+  username: 'deploy'
+}
+const managedServer = {
+  id: 'env-managed',
+  orcadDeployment: {
+    kind: 'ssh',
+    requestId: 'request-1',
+    sshTargetId: 'ssh-1',
+    sshTargetGeneration: 1,
+    localPort: 41000,
+    remotePort: 6768
+  }
+}
+const otherServer = { id: 'env-other' }
+
+describe('a user Disconnect of an SSH host', () => {
+  const harness = createSshIpcHarness(mocks)
+  const { handlers } = harness
+
+  beforeEach(async () => {
+    await harness.reset()
+    runtime.environments = [managedServer, otherServer]
+    runtime.getStatusOwner.mockReset().mockReturnValue({ activate: runtime.activate })
+    runtime.activate.mockReset()
+    runtime.invalidate.mockReset()
+    mockSshStore.getTarget.mockReturnValue(target)
+    mockConnectionManager.disconnect.mockResolvedValue(undefined)
+  })
+
+  afterEach(() => {
+    clearRuntimeEnvironmentManualDisconnect(managedServer.id)
+    clearRuntimeEnvironmentManualDisconnect(otherServer.id)
+  })
+
+  async function disconnect(): Promise<void> {
+    await handlers.get('ssh:disconnect')!(null, { targetId: target.id })
+  }
+
+  it('is not undone by a background connect such as a pane or automation restore', async () => {
+    await disconnect()
+
+    await expect(
+      handlers.get('ssh:connect')!(null, { targetId: target.id, automatic: true })
+    ).rejects.toThrow('Server was disconnected. Connect to use it again.')
+    expect(mockConnectionManager.connect).not.toHaveBeenCalled()
+    expect(isSshUserDisconnected(target.id)).toBe(true)
+  })
+
+  it("also stops the managed server's status checks, which would redial the host", async () => {
+    await disconnect()
+
+    expect(isRuntimeEnvironmentManuallyDisconnected(managedServer.id)).toBe(true)
+    expect(runtime.invalidate).toHaveBeenCalledWith(managedServer.id)
+    expect(isRuntimeEnvironmentManuallyDisconnected(otherServer.id)).toBe(false)
+  })
+
+  /** Settings' Connect; the server decision is mocked, so only the lift matters here. */
+  async function connectExplicitly(): Promise<void> {
+    await Promise.resolve(handlers.get('ssh:connect')!(null, { targetId: target.id })).catch(
+      () => {}
+    )
+  }
+
+  it('is not re-applied by its own cleanup when a Connect follows at once', async () => {
+    const disconnecting = disconnect()
+    const connecting = connectExplicitly()
+    await Promise.all([disconnecting, connecting])
+
+    expect(isSshUserDisconnected(target.id)).toBe(false)
+    expect(isRuntimeEnvironmentManuallyDisconnected(managedServer.id)).toBe(false)
+    expect(runtime.invalidate).not.toHaveBeenCalled()
+  })
+
+  it('is lifted, with its server, by an explicit Connect, whose status checks resume after', async () => {
+    await disconnect()
+    mockConnectionManager.connect.mockResolvedValue({})
+    const { publishManagedServerConnect } = await import('./ssh-host-server-connect')
+    const connected: SshConnectionState = {
+      targetId: target.id,
+      status: 'connected',
+      error: null,
+      reconnectAttempt: 0
+    }
+    vi.mocked(publishManagedServerConnect).mockReturnValue(connected)
+
+    await connectExplicitly()
+
+    expect(isSshUserDisconnected(target.id)).toBe(false)
+    expect(isRuntimeEnvironmentManuallyDisconnected(managedServer.id)).toBe(false)
+    expect(runtime.activate).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(1)
+  })
+
+  it('still lets the user test the connection, which leaves it disconnected', async () => {
+    await disconnect()
+    mockConnectionManager.connect.mockResolvedValue({
+      getState: () => ({ targetId: target.id, status: 'connected', error: null })
+    })
+
+    await handlers.get('ssh:testConnection')!(null, { targetId: target.id })
+
+    expect(mockConnectionManager.connect).toHaveBeenCalledWith(target, { probe: true })
+    expect(isSshUserDisconnected(target.id)).toBe(true)
+    expect(isRuntimeEnvironmentManuallyDisconnected(managedServer.id)).toBe(true)
+  })
+})
diff --git a/src/main/ipc/ssh-host-user-disconnect.ts b/src/main/ipc/ssh-host-user-disconnect.ts
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..10bc3d9f107
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/main/ipc/ssh-host-user-disconnect.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,129 @@
+import { getAppEnvironment } from '../../shared/app-environment'
+import { listEnvironments } from '../../shared/runtime-environment-store'
+import {
+  getOrcadSshDeployment,
+  getRuntimeSshAccess,
+  type KnownRuntimeEnvironment
+} from '../../shared/runtime-environments'
+import {
+  clearSshUserDisconnected,
+  clearSshUserDisconnectedForEnvironment,
+  isSshUserDisconnected,
+  recordSshUserDisconnected
+} from '../ssh/ssh-user-disconnect'
+import { connectRegisteredSshTarget } from '../ssh/ssh-target-registry'
+import {
+  clearRuntimeEnvironmentManualDisconnect,
+  isRuntimeEnvironmentManuallyDisconnected,
+  markRuntimeEnvironmentManuallyDisconnected
+} from './runtime-environment-manual-disconnect'
+import { getRuntimeEnvironmentStatusOwner } from './runtime-environment-request-connections'
+import { disconnectRegisteredSshTarget } from './ssh-session-teardown'
+
+/**
+ * A server reached through an SSH host cannot work without it, and its status checks redial it.
+ * So a user's Disconnect of either one (Settings or the status bar) takes down both, and only an
+ * explicit Connect of either one brings both back; every surface then reads the same verdict.
+ */
+
+type InvalidateTransport = (environmentId: string) => Promise<void> | void
+type RuntimeLayer = { userDataPath: string; invalidateTransport: InvalidateTransport }
+
+const appUserDataPath = (): string => getAppEnvironment().getPath('userData')
+
+function environmentsReachedThrough(
+  userDataPath: string,
+  targetId: string
+): KnownRuntimeEnvironment[] {
+  return listEnvironments(userDataPath).filter(
+    (environment) => getRuntimeSshAccess(environment)?.sshTargetId === targetId
+  )
+}
+
+export function disconnectRuntimeEnvironmentForUser(
+  environmentId: string,
+  { userDataPath, invalidateTransport }: RuntimeLayer
+): void {
+  markRuntimeEnvironmentManuallyDisconnected(environmentId)
+  void invalidateTransport(environmentId)
+  // Retain disconnected evidence for renderers that missed the teardown event.
+  getRuntimeEnvironmentStatusOwner(userDataPath, environmentId)
+}
+
+export async function disconnectSshHostForUser(
+  targetId: string,
+  runtimeLayer?: RuntimeLayer
+): Promise<void> {
+  // Why synchronously, before any await: a status check already in flight must not redial, and the
+  // teardown must reserve the target's lifecycle so a later Connect queues behind it.
+  recordSshUserDisconnected(targetId)
+  const userDataPath = runtimeLayer?.userDataPath ?? appUserDataPath()
+  const environments = environmentsReachedThrough(userDataPath, targetId).filter(
+    (environment) => !isRuntimeEnvironmentManuallyDisconnected(environment.id)
+  )
+  environments.forEach((environment) => markRuntimeEnvironmentManuallyDisconnected(environment.id))
+  const teardown = disconnectRegisteredSshTarget(targetId)
+  if (environments.length > 0) {
+    // Why lazy: runtime-environments wires every runtime handler and imports the SSH layer.
+    const invalidateTransport =
+      runtimeLayer?.invalidateTransport ??
+      (await import('./runtime-environments')).invalidateRuntimeEnvironmentTransport
+    for (const environment of environments) {
+      // A Connect during the import already lifted this server; tearing it down would undo that.
+      if (isRuntimeEnvironmentManuallyDisconnected(environment.id)) {
+        disconnectRuntimeEnvironmentForUser(environment.id, { userDataPath, invalidateTransport })
+      }
+    }
+  }
+  await teardown
+}
+
+/** The status bar's Disconnect of a managed server is a Disconnect of the machine it runs on. */
+export async function disconnectManagedHostOfEnvironmentForUser(
+  environment: Pick<KnownRuntimeEnvironment, 'orcadDeployment'>,
+  runtimeLayer: RuntimeLayer
+): Promise<void> {
+  const targetId = getOrcadSshDeployment(environment)?.sshTargetId
+  if (targetId) {
+    await disconnectSshHostForUser(targetId, runtimeLayer)
+  }
+}
+
+/** The status bar's Connect of a server lifts the Disconnect of the SSH host it is reached through. */
+export async function liftSshUserDisconnectForEnvironment(
+  environment: Pick<KnownRuntimeEnvironment, 'orcadDeployment' | 'sshAccess'>
+): Promise<void> {
+  const managedHostId = getOrcadSshDeployment(environment)?.sshTargetId
+  if (managedHostId && isSshUserDisconnected(managedHostId)) {
+    // Why: the host's own Connect republishes its managed verdict and restores its port forwards,
+    // which the status bar's Disconnect tore down with the host.
+    await connectRegisteredSshTarget(managedHostId)
+    return
+  }
+  clearSshUserDisconnectedForEnvironment(environment)
+}
+
+/**
+ * An explicit Connect of an SSH host lifts its Disconnect and that of the servers reached through it.
+ * Returns the servers lifted, whose status checks resume once the connect settles.
+ */
+export function liftSshHostUserDisconnect(targetId: string): string[] {
+  clearSshUserDisconnected(targetId)
+  const lifted: string[] = []
+  for (const environment of environmentsReachedThrough(appUserDataPath(), targetId)) {
+    if (isRuntimeEnvironmentManuallyDisconnected(environment.id)) {
+      clearRuntimeEnvironmentManualDisconnect(environment.id)
+      lifted.push(environment.id)
+    }
+  }
+  return lifted
+}
+
+/** Why after the connect: an earlier status check would race the connect for the same host. */
+export function resumeRuntimeEnvironmentStatus(environmentIds: readonly string[]): void {
+  for (const environmentId of environmentIds) {
+    if (!isRuntimeEnvironmentManuallyDisconnected(environmentId)) {
+      getRuntimeEnvironmentStatusOwner(appUserDataPath(), environmentId).activate()
+    }
+  }
+}
diff --git a/src/main/ipc/ssh.ts b/src/main/ipc/ssh.ts
index d4d9660a0e0..ff80652a03d 100644
--- a/src/main/ipc/ssh.ts
+++ b/src/main/ipc/ssh.ts
@@ -30,6 +30,7 @@ import {
 } from './ssh-connect-attempt-registry'
 import { createSshConnectionCallbacks } from './ssh-connection-state-callbacks'
 import { resetSshCredentialDeclinesForTests } from '../ssh/ssh-credential-decline'
+import { resetSshUserDisconnectsForTests } from '../ssh/ssh-user-disconnect'
 import { registerSshConnectionHandlers } from './ssh-connection-handlers'
 import {
   registerPowerMonitorReconnect,
@@ -170,6 +171,7 @@ export async function resetSshHandlerStateForTests(): Promise<void> {
   testConnectionProbes.clear()
   credentialRequestedForTarget.clear()
   resetSshCredentialDeclinesForTests()
+  resetSshUserDisconnectsForTests()
   quitTeardownStartGate.resetForTests()
   resetSshShutdownDrain()
 
diff --git a/src/main/ssh/ssh-connection-manager.test.ts b/src/main/ssh/ssh-connection-manager.test.ts
index eacb991fbea..4418fb2a674 100644
--- a/src/main/ssh/ssh-connection-manager.test.ts
+++ b/src/main/ssh/ssh-connection-manager.test.ts
@@ -55,6 +55,7 @@ import {
   resetSshCredentialDeclinesForTests
 } from './ssh-credential-decline'
 import { isAuthError } from './ssh-connection-utils'
+import { recordSshUserDisconnected, resetSshUserDisconnectsForTests } from './ssh-user-disconnect'
 
 const target = {
   id: 'target-1',
@@ -271,3 +272,43 @@ describe('SshConnectionManager after a cancelled sign-in', () => {
     expect(mockState.instances).toHaveLength(1)
   })
 })
+
+describe('SshConnectionManager after a user Disconnect', () => {
+  beforeEach(() => {
+    mockState.connectResults.length = 0
+    mockState.instances.length = 0
+    resetSshUserDisconnectsForTests()
+  })
+
+  it('refuses the background dials that revived the host, without opening a connection', async () => {
+    // A managed server's tunnel, its status checks, a census and host-resume recovery dial here.
+    const manager = new SshConnectionManager({ onStateChange: vi.fn() })
+    await manager.connect(target)
+    await manager.disconnect(target.id)
+    recordSshUserDisconnected(target.id)
+    mockState.instances.length = 0
+
+    const error = await manager.connect(target).catch((err: unknown) => err)
+
+    expect(error instanceof Error && error.message).toBe(
+      'Target 1 was disconnected. Connect to use it again.'
+    )
+    expect(error instanceof Error && isAuthError(error)).toBe(false)
+    expect(mockState.instances).toHaveLength(0)
+  })
+
+  it("does not lend a connection test's transport to a background dial", async () => {
+    const manager = new SshConnectionManager({ onStateChange: vi.fn() })
+    recordSshUserDisconnected(target.id)
+    await manager.connect(target, { probe: true })
+
+    await expect(manager.connect(target)).rejects.toThrow('was disconnected')
+  })
+
+  it("dials a user's connection test", async () => {
+    const manager = new SshConnectionManager({ onStateChange: vi.fn() })
+    recordSshUserDisconnected(target.id)
+
+    await expect(manager.connect(target, { probe: true })).resolves.toBeDefined()
+  })
+})
diff --git a/src/main/ssh/ssh-connection-manager.ts b/src/main/ssh/ssh-connection-manager.ts
index 8eadf5cdd4d..3a5e2a4e50a 100644
--- a/src/main/ssh/ssh-connection-manager.ts
+++ b/src/main/ssh/ssh-connection-manager.ts
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ import {
 } from './ssh-connection'
 import { recordSshConnectionOpened, recordSshConnectionReused } from './ssh-connection-attribution'
 import { createSshCredentialDeclinedError, isSshCredentialDeclined } from './ssh-credential-decline'
+import { createSshUserDisconnectedError, isSshUserDisconnected } from './ssh-user-disconnect'
 
 /** A remembered sign-in only applies to the endpoint it was given for; an edited host must ask. */
 function signInEndpoint(target: SshTarget): string {
@@ -37,7 +38,13 @@ export class SshConnectionManager {
     }
   }
 
-  async connect(target: SshTarget): Promise<SshConnection> {
+  /** `probe`: a user's connection test, which a Disconnect does not refuse. */
+  async connect(target: SshTarget, options?: { probe?: boolean }): Promise<SshConnection> {
+    // Why: background dials would revive a host the user disconnected (#30086); before reuse, so
+    // none borrows the transport a connection test opened.
+    if (!options?.probe && isSshUserDisconnected(target.id)) {
+      throw createSshUserDisconnectedError(target.label)
+    }
     const existing = this.connections.get(target.id)
     if (existing?.getState().status === 'connected') {
       recordSshConnectionReused(existing)
diff --git a/src/main/ssh/ssh-user-disconnect.ts b/src/main/ssh/ssh-user-disconnect.ts
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..37a0cc20e4d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/main/ssh/ssh-user-disconnect.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,46 @@
+import {
+  getRuntimeSshAccess,
+  type KnownRuntimeEnvironment
+} from '../../shared/runtime-environments'
+
+/**
+ * Hosts the user pressed Disconnect on. Until the user explicitly connects again, no background
+ * dial (a managed server's tunnel or status check, a census, a pane or automation restore) may
+ * reconnect them. Session-only, like a paired server's manual disconnect, so both halves of a
+ * managed host are forgotten together at restart.
+ */
+const userDisconnectedTargets = new Set<string>()
+
+export function recordSshUserDisconnected(targetId: string): void {
+  userDisconnectedTargets.add(targetId)
+}
+
+export function isSshUserDisconnected(targetId: string): boolean {
+  return userDisconnectedTargets.has(targetId)
+}
+
+/** Only an explicit user connect may lift it. */
+export function clearSshUserDisconnected(targetId: string): void {
+  userDisconnectedTargets.delete(targetId)
+}
+
+/** An explicit connect to a server reached over SSH is a connect of that SSH host too. */
+export function clearSshUserDisconnectedForEnvironment(
+  environment: Pick<KnownRuntimeEnvironment, 'orcadDeployment' | 'sshAccess'>
+): void {
+  const targetId = getRuntimeSshAccess(environment)?.sshTargetId
+  if (targetId) {
+    clearSshUserDisconnected(targetId)
+  }
+}
+
+export function resetSshUserDisconnectsForTests(): void {
+  userDisconnectedTargets.clear()
+}
+
+/** Not an auth or transient failure: callers neither ask for a sign-in nor retry it. */
+export function createSshUserDisconnectedError(label: string): Error {
+  return Object.assign(new Error(`${label} was disconnected. Connect to use it again.`), {
+    code: 'ssh_user_disconnected'
+  })
+}