o.k.
the status on the slave-daemon holds after "launching netrender slave ...."
the status in C4D says "updating"
but actually slave is rendering.
Tried again a larger scene with and without networkrendering
and with netrenderingits nearly half the time.
I came up checking network activity with the task manager.
So my suggestion would be to print in the console/status on Slave
and in C4D "NOW RENDERING" so that you know whats going on.
thanks for your support and patience!
regards
Mike