Can't disable publishing

I have a server work as publisher and distributor for a database and another
remote server work as subscriber. The remote server downed and reformatted
due to system failure. We setup another remote server with different name.
But when I tried to disable publishing/ delete and recreate subscription at
publisher/distributor server, i received the following error:
The server has been disconnected. Please reconnect it and perform this
action again.
How should i fixed it?
Thank you.
In article <E87D093B-0F0D-4601-9D00-
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> I have a server work as publisher and distributor for a database and another
> remote server work as subscriber. The remote server downed and reformatted
> due to system failure. We setup another remote server with different name.
> But when I tried to disable publishing/ delete and recreate subscription at
> publisher/distributor server, i received the following error:
> The server has been disconnected. Please reconnect it and perform this
> action again.
> How should i fixed it?
> Thank you.
I have had this problem twice. You can do the sp that paul
said to do, but for it work you need to reboot the
publisher. I kept running it, and kept receiving the same
error you were getting. We finally rebooted the publisher
and stopped getting the error.
You can also set a fake subscriber with the same
name/db/tables as the old one (just no data in them), and
then delete it. That worked for us also.